A German-Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered the first Hellenistic gymnasium ever found in Egypt, located at Medinat Watfa, in the northwest of Fayoum Oasis. The mission from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), headed by Professor Cornelia Römer, made the discovery as part of its ongoing excavations at the Watfa site.

The health condition of golden-era iconic Egyptian singer and actress Shadia is stable, said Musical Professions Syndicate Spokesperson Tarek Mortada. Syndicate Chairman and singer Hany Shaker assigned the Musical Professions Services Committee headed by Maestro Hassan Fekry to follow up the situation and to provide all the necessary help, Mortada added.

Under the beaming sun that seizes to take it any easier all year long, she juggles a hectic agenda and the roles of few different individuals. To her, fashion is not only a way to express her thoughts, it is also a daily companion that helps her get through her growing to-do lists. Despite her relatively young age, this woman has a successful life that came as a result of many busy mornings. She is a multitasker who understands the rapid pace of the digital millennium; she is also the kind of person that would never walk away from a good piece of art.

Director Ahmed Saleh s animation film “Ayny” (My Second Eye) the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Mizna s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival in Minnesota, USA. The film is planned to take part at the upcoming edition of Cairo International Film Festival through the Oscars Shorts programme. The Germany, Jordan, and Palestine co-production is based on true events. The 11-minute animation tells the story of two young boy who ran away to escape their mother s over protection and found themselves achieving their lifetime dream by playing music using their most favourite instrument, Oud. Yet, living in the area where war took their home, makes them realize that their mother s fear was for a good reason.

Scientists have found a hidden chamber in Egypt s Great Pyramid of Giza, the first such discovery in the structure since the 19th century and one likely to spark a new surge of interest in the pharaohs. In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, an international team said the 30-meter (yard) void deep within the pyramid is situated above the structure s Grand Gallery, and has a similar cross-section. The purpose of the chamber is unclear, and it s not yet known whether it was built with a function in mind.

A void in the Great Pyramid of Giza that a team of researchers said they have discovered is not a new discovery, said Zahi Hawass, former antiquities minister. “The void is the first large inner structure discovered within the 4,500-year-old pyramid since the 1800s—a find made possible by recent advances in high-energy particle physics,” according to an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday.

The Belgian film King of Belgians will open the 10th Panorama of the European Film on 7 November. The film will be screened at Zamalek Cinema, which joins the Panorama for the first time this year as one of the two main screening venues in Cairo, alongside Zawya.

Almost a week after a group of Swiss tourists rescued a donkey from the Giza district and flew it to Switzerland for 800 Euros, an American woman reportedly airlifted 14 dogs and a cat out of Egypt on Sunday, according to airport officials. The woman paid 60,000 Egyptian pounds ($3,400) for the operation to rescue the 15 animals, and shipped them to New York via national carrier EgyptAir.

Artists, intellectuals and ambassadors from around the world attended the Saturday night opening of “A night with Art at the Egyptian Museum”, organised by the private Art D’Egypte organisation. The exhibition, at the museum on Cairo’s iconic Tahrir square, will be open to the public until Tuesday.

The Panorama of the European Film’s 10th edition, will be taking place between 8-18 November and will expand its showings this year to 10 cities across Egypt. The annual festival was founded by Misr International Films and is organized by Zawya, Cairo’s arthouse cinema.

Paintings by top Egyptian artists shared wall space with hieroglyphs and Pharaonic relics at Cairo s Egyptian Museum this week in an exhibition highlighting ancient influences on contemporary art. Artists, intellectuals and ambassadors from around the world attended the Saturday night opening of "A night with Art at the Egyptian Museum", organised by the private Art D Egypte organisation.

Antiquities officials at Hurghada International Airport foiled an attempt on Monday to smuggle an antique Coptic icon out of Egypt. According to Naglaa El-Kobrosly, director of the Antiquities Units in Egyptian Airport, a passenger was attempting to smuggle the 18th century religious object to Germany.

The General Authority for Transport Passengers in Alexandria signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s leading new-energy car maker BYD to conduct a feasibility study on a 128 kilometer monorail project to be implemented in eight stages in the city. The monorail will be the first sky rail monorail to be constructed on the African continent, based on Build–operate–transfer (BOT) system.

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities will start a restoration and rehabilitation project for the Bab al-Azab area in Mediaeval Cairo, the scene of Mohamed Ali’s massacre of the Mamluks in an effort to renovate a series of monuments in Historic Cairo. The restoration project will be executed in three phases over a 10-month period, with a grant from the American Research Centre in Cairo (ARCE), director general of the Historic Cairo Rehabilitation Project, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz said in a statement this week.

Major General Alaa Abu Zeid, governor of Matruh governorate, and head of the Antiquities Ministry’s Museums Sector Elham Salah Eddin, inspected Thursday the first regional archaeological museum in Matruh that will be inaugurated in November at a cost of LE3.5 million. The museum is affiliated to Matruh Public Library. The governor stressed the need to take precautionary measures to secure the museum, through the installment of the latest surveillance cameras, and providing fixed police checkpoints supported by the latest bomb detection devices.

The committee of Islamic and Coptic antiquities approved starting restoration of Bab Azzab, one of Saladin Citadel of Cairo s gates and its surrounding area. According to a state media outlet, starting from next April and for tens months, the restoration process will include removing the place s surrounding trash while restoring the gates as well as the walls and widows

During her first visit to Egypt, Miss Universe 2016, Iris Mittenaere, exclaimed “Long live Egypt, Long live Egypt” in Arabic to express her love for Egypt and Egyptian people. “I have been longing to see Egypt since I was a child,” Mittenaere said after she arrived at Cairo airport, on Tuesday.

About 175 students from the faculties of art education and applied arts in three universities participated in drawing and beautifying the wall of the new building at 57357 hospital. The hospital invited students from four faculties of art education and applied arts from the universities of Minya, Banha and Helwan to participate in drawing the wall surrounding the new building, said Professor Ahmed Ammar, who is in charge of the student delegation from the Faculty of Art Education, Minya University.

Napoleon Bonaparte and Auguste Rodin are both household names in their own right. But a bust of the French emperor created by the master sculptor faded into oblivion in an American town, only to be discovered by chance. The white marble statue was certainly visible in the meeting room of the borough hall of Madison — a municipality of 16,000 people in New Jersey.

A massive 423.5-kilogram (934-pound) doner kebab was served up in a Berlin shopping center on Friday, breaking the world record for the sandwich that has become a staple of German food. The doner weighed in at almost a ton, but broke due to its weight and needed to be cut in two. Still, the larger doner piece broke the previous world record of 413 kilograms set in Australia, said the Record Institute of Germany, a counterpart of the Guinness Book of World Records.

A group of Swiss tourists visiting Egypt were angered by how one donkey was brutally treated near the Giza Pyramids so they decided to buy it, rescue it, medically treat it and fly it with them to Switzerland. The Swiss tourists were at Sakkara this week where they found a donkey with traces of torture, and severe wounds. They offered its owner money so they could take it, but the owner refused, Mohammed al-Nawawi, head of the Brooke Hospital for the treatment of donkeys and horses told Al Masry Al Youm.