Egypt Coverage

Triangle Jewish community celebrates Passover as FBI takes precautions

Passover, which commemorates the Jewish people's escape from slavery in ancient Egypt, begins Monday.

WRAL staff

Researchers discover the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Egyptian officials say they found a hidden 30 foot-long corridor and the Great Pyramid was built as a tomb around 2560 B-C.

Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Leader Ousted in Arab Spring, Dies at 91

Hosni Mubarak, the former autocratic president of Egypt, whose hold on power was broken and place in history upended by a public uprising against the poverty, corruption and repressive police tactics that came to define his 30 years in office, died Tuesday in Cairo. He was 91.

Michael Slackman, New York Times

Sarcophagus found. Contents unknown. ('No guessing, please.')

CAIRO -- Jet black and glistening with mud, the giant granite sarcophagus sits at the bottom of a pit in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, perfectly sealed despite being 2,000 years old, prompting ever-wilder theories about what secrets might lie inside.

Declan Walsh, New York Times