Dozens of men wearing military combat uniforms and armed with automatic machine guns carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai, Egyptian authorities said. Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in five SUVs at the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed on Friday. Some wore masks and at least one was carrying an ISIS flag, the state prosecutor told state-run Nile TV in a statement.

The Sinai mosque massacre proves what many have suspected for months in Egypt: that Isis – even without a direct claim yet –  is taking over the peninsula, targeting more and more of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s officers and police.  Thus proving that tactical defeat in Iraq and Syria means for Isis merely a change of location. By Robert Fisk.

The death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai has risen to 305, with 27 children among the dead, Egypt's state prosecutor said Saturday. Another 128 people were injured, according to a statement from the public prosecutor read out on Egyptian state-run news channel Nile TV. Between 25 to 30 armed men carried out the assault on the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, the statement said.

The woman accused of smuggling hundreds of prescription painkillers into Egypt has been referred for trial at a criminal court and must remain in custody until her case is heard. Laura Plummer, 33, stands accused of illegally taking 300 tramadol tablets into Eygpt where the prescription painkillers are a controlled substance. She claimed she had “no idea” the opioids were banned in the country and insists she was bringing the painkillers to her partner who was suffering from back pain.

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed an ancient gymnasium that dates back to the third century B.C. The site is the first ever gym found in Egypt dating back to the ancient Hellenistic, or Greek, period. A joint team of German and Egyptian archaeologists made the discovery at Watfa in Fayoum province, about 50 miles southwest of Cairo.

An Egyptian archaeologist overseeing a project to scan a pyramid for voids on Saturday criticised the announcement of a discovery of a passenger plane-sized cavity in the Great Pyramid.

The Ministry of Education initiated an urgent investigation into complaints submitted by a number of parents at a language school in Nozha neighborhood, Cairo, accusing a school official of raping three pupils. The accused is a partner in the school and is its legal representative. The allegations by parents were brought forward after one of the alleged victims identified him.

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 journey from the source of the Nile in central Africa to its mouth near Cairo, charting the problems faced by the river and those who depend on it.

As time passes by, more brutal stories on ISIS’s violence in war-torn areas unravel and circulate basically through alternative media and some media outlets, at the time mainstream outlets remain silent. A new mass grave has been uncovered with 21 bodies and their heads buried two years ago. Libya’s Interior Ministry has announced that they have found the mass grave of Coptic Christians who were beheaded by ISIS, the so-called Islamic State. According to the report, the remains have been sent for forensic examination.

Egypt says archaeologists have discovered the upper part of royal obelisk dating back more than 4,000 years. The Antiquities Ministry said Wednesday the unearthed part of the obelisk is made of pink granite and is about 2.5 meters (yards) high. The entire obelisk is believed to have been at least twice as high.

Akhenaten upended the religion, art, and politics of ancient Egypt, and then his legacy was buried. Now he endures as a symbol of change. By Peter Hessler.

New evidence proves that the ancient Egyptians constructed the Great Pyramid at Giza by transporting 170,000 tons of limestone in boats. It has long been known that the rock was extracted eight miles away in Tura and that granite used in the monumental structure was quarried 533 miles away in Aswan.

In a new documentary, aired by Channel 4 on British television last week, archaeologists presented new evidence describing how the Great Pyramid was constructed. The new insight comes from papyrus discovered in the ancient port of Wadi al-Jarf, on the Red Sea. Among the documents discovered there over the last six years, a joint French-Egyptian team unearthed the diary of Merer, an official involved in the construction of the Great Pyramid.

A girl’s heroic story has won the hearts of the Egyptian people, to the extent that they are demanding the government to protect and care for her. They have also asked that she is provided with a residence and granted a monthly pension. The girl, Mariam Abduljalil al-Asawi, reported members of her family to authorities. She reported her father, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and her mother and brother, who are both ISIS members, she said.

Pharaonic tomb belongs to royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty.

Luxor, Egypt (CNN)Egyptian authorities unveiled a previously undiscovered ancient tomb belonging to a goldsmith and his wife near Luxor in southern Egypt on Saturday. The tomb, at the Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis, contains "mummies, sarcophagi, statuettes, pots and other artifacts," according to Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities.

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a goldsmith dedicated to the god Amun and the mummies of a woman and her two children, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday.

A series of tombs dating back about 2,000 years, to the time when the Romans controlled Egypt, has been discovered, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced Aug. 23. Excavations at Bir esh-Shaghala in the Dakhla Oasis have uncovered tombs made of mudbrick and some are quite large containing multiple burial chambers. Some of the tombs have vaulted roofs and one tomb has a roof built in the shape of a pyramid.

The strange twists in the case of Giulio Regeni’s disappearance in Cairo.