Pyramids

Legit 3D Virtual Tours Of Giza

Posted 05.23.2012

You can now take a 3D tour of an ancient Egyptian burial ground. A project dubbed Giza 3D makes it possible for anyone to jump online and stroll th...

Andrew Burmon

Visiting The Next Giza

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 05.15.2012

The only English words heard in Said Gomaa's coffee shop are expletives shouted by the action stars blasting their way through a satellite network's a...

The 7 Most Overrated Curses

Mark Juddery | Posted 12.23.2011

Mark Juddery

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Exploring Egypt During The Turmoil (PHOTOS)

Ronen Paldi | Posted 12.14.2011

Ronen Paldi

Egypt's landscape varies widely. Cairo is as densely populated and as modern as any city most in the US whereas villages in the lush Nile Valley have changed little in thousands of years.

PHOTOS: Egypt Excavates 4,500-Year-Old Boat

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2011

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Archaeologists have begun excavating a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of Egypt's main t...

Real Life Indiana Jones: Lost Underground Pyramids Found (VIDEO)

Posted 11.16.2011

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PHOTOS: 7 Egyptian Tombs Open To Tourists

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2011

CAIRO -- The tombs of seven men, including several who served King Tutankhamen and his father, the pharaoh Akhenaten, were opened to tourists on Monda...

HuffPost Blogger's Weekend In Cairo

Tori Haschka | Posted 05.25.2011

Tori Haschka

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Egypt the Eternal

Scott S. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Scott S. Smith

What if I told you the Egyptian capital of Cairo, with 18 million residents and workers in the city each day, has almost no crime of any kind? Despite...

Cairo Sunshine All Around -- Reflecting on the Rebirth of My Birthplace

Raffi Cavoukian | Posted 05.25.2011

Raffi Cavoukian

Egypt's revolution is humanity's. And as a revolution enhanced by social media before the state silenced them, the Cairo scenario begs a question.

Dumber Than Mubarak?

Will Stebbins | Posted 05.25.2011

Will Stebbins

They may be preparing to sacrifice Mubarak to appease the crowds, but there are unmistakable signs that the regime is busy inventing a new argument for their ongoing monopoly on power.

Will Smith's Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt's History by Hollywood

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Aladdin Elaasar

Will Smith's upcoming movie sheds light on long forgotten Egyptian history. If you want to know the true story of the Last Pharaoh of Egypt, you'd better pay attention to what's going on in Egypt today and in the near future.

A Revolution in the Making?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Aladdin Elaasar

A sense of frustration, hopelessness and repression seems to be haunting Egyptian youth and the older people as well, struggling to make ends meet. The result has impacted Egyptian society.

Buried Land: An Interview with the Filmmakers

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph Smigelski

Buried Land is about three ancient pyramids, even older than those in Egypt, that some people claim can be found beneath three large hills in central Bosnia.

Thirty Years after Khomeini: Will Egypt Turn into another Iran?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Aladdin Elaasar

The 83-year-old President Mubarak of Egypt has been in power since 1981. Concerns about his health draw much greater attention to the question of who will next rule the nation of Egypt.

Is Egypt's Economy in Crisis?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Aladdin Elaasar

Egypt is undergoing a severe liquidity crisis caused by the loss of hard currency from few sources: tourism was a key source of foreign exchange and the main engine of growth.

Will Smith, The Last Pharaoh

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Aladdin Elaasar

Will Smith's latest project, The Last Pharaoh, is a greatmega action movie expected by millions of fans around the globe.

Risky Business in the Arab World

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Aladdin Elaasar

Why is it hard for Arab and Muslim writers, professors, intellectuals and average persons to speak out against suicide bombers, Jihadists, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in their countries?

New Discovery Shows Slaves Didn't Build Pyramids, Egypt Says

AP | KATARINA KRATOVAC | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO — Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyra...

Egypt Discovers New Tombs Near Pyramids

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO — Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new set of tombs belonging to the workers who built the great pyramids, shedding light on how the l...

Obama Tours Pyramids: "Five Guys Was Good, This Was Better" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

During his stay in Cairo, Egypt, where he gave his longest and arguably most anticipated speech yet, President Obama indulged in some tourism, visitin...