West Coast author Wendy Scott has picked up a second international award for her teen novel Hieroglyph.

COMMENT: It came as no surprise to pyramid buffs that scans picked up previously unknown "passages" or "rooms" in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Journalist Jakub Kyncl was granted a rare chance to photograph the historic tombs.

A leopard has reportedly killed a nine-year-old girl in Egypt after escaping from a wildlife farm in a village south of Cairo.

Queen Nefertiti's whereabouts is the greatest mystery in archaeology. Have the ancient Egyptians duped us all along?

British Airways has suspended flights to Sharm el-Sheikh "indefinitely" amid continued security concerns after a Russian jet was bombed out of the sky over Egypt.

EgyptAir plane crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board.

What impact will the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 have on visitor numbers to Egypt?

Egypt's tourism minister said last week's EgyptAir plane crash is unlikely to affect government plans to attract millions of visitors next year.

The EgyptAir flight disappearance could be the result of a bomb, according to a prominent counter-terrorism researcher.

Egypt is confident of luring back millions of foreign visitors and putting a smile on their faces

The moderation and maturity of Muslims in New Zealand was evident once again in their response to the Egyptian initiative.

Frozen chickens, opera singers and sleeping passengers - those on board the hijacked EgpytAir flight tell their stories.

The man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane is a jailed fraudster whose passport was blacklisted after he escaped prison in 2011, it is claimed.

Of all the freedoms Egyptians thought they had won with the Tahrir Square Revolution, the one they thought irreversible was the right to demonstrate.

Investigators of the Russian plane crash are pursuing the theory that a bomb could have been placed inside a passenger's luggage by hotel staff.

President Vladimir Putin has suspended all Russian flights to Egypt and asked for up to 50,000 holiday-makers in Egypt to be brought home.

For those with a sense of adventure, visiting Egypt now has big advantages, discovers Courtney Bonnell.

Egyptian Islamists have warned that the world should brace itself for a backlash after the country's first freely elected President Mohamed Morsi was given a death sentence.

NZ doesn't have a 'realistic option of doing nothing' in the fight against Isis, PM John Key says ahead of Cabinet's decision on whether to send troops to Iraq.

Egypt has ordered a probe into a stampede and clashes at a Cairo stadium that left 19 dead, as pressure mounts on authorities over the country's latest outbreak of violence.

Just days after being freed from an Egyptian prison, Australian journalist Peter Greste says he'd like to return to work as a foreign correspondent.

An Al-Jazeera reporter who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison returned home to Australia, where he was greeted by friends and relieved family members

Australian journalist Peter Greste has revealed it was traumatic leaving his colleagues behind in a Cairo prison and he didn't truly believe he was being freed until he was seated on a plane bound for Cyprus.

The family of freed Australian journalist Peter Greste won't say when he'll be home, saying their top priority is protecting his mental health after 400 days in jail in Egypt.

Al Jazeera reporter Peter Greste will return home to Australia after being released from an Egyptian jail following a 400-day ordeal.