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Travis Scott’s Utopia concert at the Pyramids of Giza will go ahead as planned, Live Nation said, refuting reports from numerous Egyptian media outlets that said the show had been canceled. “There have been no changes to Travis Scott’s show in Egypt; any reports to the contrary are false. We can’t wait to celebrate Utopia with you in Egypt!” Live Nation said in a statement shared with Rolling Stone. The show will take place July 28.  According to reports, Egyptian authorities had decided to revoke the permit…

Travis Scott will drop his latest album in the Egyptian desert. Over the weekend, the “Sicko Mode” rapper returned to Instagram for the first time since December 2022 to announce his album, “Utopia.” In several cryptic posts shared on Instagram on Sunday, Scott teased brand-new instrumentals and videos from his time working in Malibu, Houston and Miraval, France. Then he dropped two photos announcing his Egypt livestream event. “Utopia is wherever you are,” read a poster. “Live stream transmitting from Egypt The…

Egypt may not come to mind when you think about where Samsung phones are made, but pretty soon, it’s going to be on that list as well. According to a new report, Samsung is building a smartphone manufacturing plant in Egypt. The country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has also confirmed that Samsung is setting up a new factory to produce smartphones in Egypt. The factory will cover an area of 6,000 square meters in Beni Suef. Samsung will make its latest phones at this factory The new factory is…

An Egyptian archeologist points at a colored painting showing offering sacrifices at a recently uncovered tomb that was said to belong to a top official of the fifth Dynasty named "Ne Hesut Ba" (2400 BC), at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 27, 2023. Saqqara is a part of Egypt's ancient capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil…

Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Pharaoh — an Ancient Egyptian entry in the Total War strategy series that’s set to launch later this year. Planned to release for PC in October 2023, Total War: Pharaoh will be set in Ancient Egypt, where factions will fight to survive the Bronze Age Collapse — a period of time in 12th century BC that saw a number of civilisations around the Mediterranean collapse. As with other Total War games, Pharaoh will task players with building up their empire on a turn-based campaign map…

Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans to tell its own version of the Pharaonic ruler’s story using “the highest levels of research and scrutiny.”Al Wathaeqya, the Egyptian state-backed Documentary Channel, recently announced plans to produce a documentary with the government-owned broadcaster, United Media Services — an apparent response to what some Egyptian…

WASHINGTON —  Since the day Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 14 months ago, President Biden has cited the strength of the widespread international commitment to the mission of defending an independent democracy against a brutal aggressor.But newly leaked secret U.S. government documents provide details of how some close non-European allies have been reluctant to provide arms to Ukraine, and in the case of Egypt, even considered supplying rockets to Russia, because of competing interests and concerns.In particular, three…

One thousand years ago, according to Viking sagas, intrepid seafarers sailed west from Greenland to a coast they called Vinland. There they set up camps, harvested wild grapes, and skirmished with local people. At an archaeological site in a coastal town in Newfoundland called L’Anse aux Meadows, remnants of structures laid out like Viking longhouses and artifacts such as a bronze cloak pin and iron nails record their presence—likely the…

Simon Fraser University geography professor Nick Hedley. Credit: Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti—and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti—as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of the Temple of Isis in Philae, Egypt. Working with the University…

The dimpled sphinx was found near the Hathor Temple, where the famed Dendera Zodiac had been discovered. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a sphinx statue "with a smiley face and two dimples" near the Hathor Temple, one of the country's best preserved ancient sites, the tourism and antiquities ministry announced Monday. It is…