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New 3-Way Defense Pact Is Like Article 5, Turkey Says

Agreement with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is pitched as a deterrent

(Newser) - Turkey's top diplomat says a new Middle East defense deal mirrors the core of NATO's security promise. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday described the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement among Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia as "technically" equivalent to NATO's Article 5, meaning an attack on...

Iran After New US Strikes: 'The Aggressor Will Be Punished'

Nations trade escalating attacks as the regional conflict widens

(Newser) - Iran's latest warning to Washington came with a deadline attached. Hours after the US military said it had carried out a "heavy wave of strikes" on dozens of Iranian targets overnight, Iran's Revolutionary Guard vowed that "the aggressor will be punished today," signaling more retaliation...

Trump Pledges Response After US-Owned Tanker Burns in Port

Apparent drone strike causes blasts in Egyptian port

(Newser) - Two natural gas tankers, one of them the US-owned Energos Winter, burned Wednesday after an apparent drone strike at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta. Flames lit up the port, which is not far from the Suez Canal, after explosions rocked the tankers, which were then moved away from the...

Messi's Most Puzzling Weakness: His Penalty Kicks
There's One
Area Messi
Is a Mere Mortal
analysis
Jul 8, 2026 12:45 PM CDT

There's One Area Messi Is a Mere Mortal

His usually transcendent game is just average on penalty kicks, and he's flubbed several

(Newser) - The man who's made soccer look borderline unfair for two decades keeps stumbling over its simplest shot. Writing at the Wall Street Journal , Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson dig into why Lionel Messi, widely regarded as the greatest player ever, is merely average from 12 yards out—and sometimes...

Egypt Unveils Newly Found Ancient Artifacts

Many were at the famed Ehnasiya necropolis

(Newser) - Archaeologists have unearthed a set of ancient artifacts in Egypt including Pharaonic funerary furniture, remains of a Roman basilica, and a marble head of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, per the AP . The remains of the basilica and Aphrodite's head were found in an ancient...

Ancient Engineers Made Great Pyramid Quake-Proof
Ancient Engineers Made
Great Pyramid Quake-Proof
new study
May 21, 2026 1:03 PM CDT

Ancient Engineers Made Great Pyramid Quake-Proof

Study sheds light on the 'extraordinary' feat in Egypt

(Newser) - Earthquakes have rattled Egypt for millennia, but one structure keeps shrugging them off: the Great Pyramid of Giza. A new study says that's no accident, crediting the 4,600-year-old monument's design with keeping it unusually steady when the ground moves, reports Live Science . For their study in Scientific...

Israeli Strike Kills Son of Hamas Negotiator

It's 4th son of Khalil al-Hayya, key figure in Trump-brokered Gaza talks, to die in Israeli attack

(Newser) - An airstrike that killed the son of Hamas' chief negotiator has cast a shadow over US-mediated talks on Gaza's future, even as those talks continue in Cairo. Reuters reports that Azzam al-Hayya, son of Hamas figure Khalil al-Hayya, died on Thursday from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike the...

Snake-Charmer Show Goes Fatally Awry for One Guest

German tourist in Egypt dies after venomous cobra slithers up man's pants, bites him

(Newser) - A snake-charming performance in Egypt turned fatal for a German tourist after one of the creatures reportedly slithered into his pants and bit him, authorities say. CBS News and AFP report that the 57-year-old man was watching the show at a hotel in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada...

Iliad Excerpt Found Inside Ancient Egyptian Mummy

It's the first evidence of Greek literary texts being used in mummification, researchers say

(Newser) - The idea that a good book stays with you has taken on a whole new meaning in Egypt. Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era necropolis at Al Bahnasa, site of ancient Oxyrhynchus south of Cairo, say they found a papyrus sheet tucked inside the abdomen of a mummy, bearing lines from The ...

Ancient World Wonder Is Being Rebuilt—Digitally
Ancient Wonder
of the World
Will Rise Again
longform
Feb 9, 2026 8:42 AM CST

Ancient Wonder of the World Will Rise Again

Digital twin project uses underwater scans to reconstruct the Lighthouse of Alexandria

(Newser) - A long-vanished giant of the ancient world is being digitally reconstructed for modern eyes, block by painstaking block. The New York Times reports on the Pharos Project , a French- and Egyptian-led effort to virtually rebuild the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the 460-foot beacon that once rivaled the Great Pyramid in height...

After Nearly 2 Years, Gaza Crossing Into Egypt to Reopen

Though Israeli move to open Rafah crossing Sunday is for 'limited movement of people only'

(Newser) - Israel said on Friday that it will reopen Gaza's border crossing with Egypt in both directions over the weekend, allowing Palestinians to enter and leave the territory after nearly two years of closure. COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said in a statement...

Cruise Ship Passenger Dies in Collision on the Nile

Italian tourist, 47, was inside her cabin at the time near Luxor

(Newser) - A Nile River cruise in Egypt ended in tragedy for an Italian teacher when the vessel she was on collided with another, reports People . Denise Ruggeri, 47, was aboard the Royal Beau Rivage when it struck another cruise ship while navigating a lock on the river roughly 20 miles from...

Pharaoh's Temple to the Sun Unearthed

Fifth Dynasty sun worship complex later became a settlement, archaeologists say

(Newser) - Archaeologists in Egypt say they've uncovered a massive 4,400-year-old sun temple tied to an ancient pharaoh—one of only two such structures ever found. An Italian team, working with Egypt's antiquities ministry, uncovered more than half of the long-buried temple of King Nyuserre, a lesser-known pharaoh of...

Egypt Unveils Restored Statues of Pharaoh in Luxor

Project pairs with Grand Egyptian Museum as draw for tourists.

(Newser) - Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government's archaeological events intended to draw more tourists to the country. The giant alabaster statues, known as the Colossi of Memnon, were reassembled in a...

2K Years Before Superyachts, Ancient Egypt Had These

Archaeologists believe they've uncovered first example of a luxury thalamegos

(Newser) - Ancient Egyptian art and texts tell of wealthy elite traveling along the Nile on luxury pleasure boats known as the thalamegos, basically early versions of modern superyachts. Now, archaeologists believe they've uncovered one for the very first time. Marine archaeologist Franck Goddio and his team have documented a 35-meter-long...

Egypt Unveils Massive New Museum
Egypt Unveils
Massive New Museum
Nov 3, 2025 2:54 PM CST

Egypt Unveils Massive New Museum

Long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum has space for 50K artifacts

(Newser) - In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday, a megaproject aiming to give the country's millennia-old heritage a rich, modern display. Two decades in the making, the museum located...

King Tut's Treasures Are Finally Reunited

More than 5K artifacts from boy king's tomb to be showcased at Grand Egyptian Museum

(Newser) - For the first time since Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, all of the boy pharaoh's treasures are back under one roof. The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, poised for its grand opening on Saturday, is putting more than 5,300 artifacts from King Tut's tomb...

Another Ancient Egyptian Treasure Is Stolen

Limestone relief reportedly cut from the wall of a sealed Fifth Dynasty tomb

(Newser) - A 4,000-year-old limestone relief has mysteriously disappeared from a sealed tomb in Egypt's famed Saqqara Necropolis, raising fresh questions about the security of the nation's ancient treasures. The artifact, which dates back to Egypt's Fifth Dynasty (circa 2500 to 2350 BC), was taken from the...

Egypt's President Pardons Prominent Political Prisoner

Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed after years in prison and global advocacy efforts

(Newser) - A pardon from Egypt's president has ended one of the country's most closely watched cases of political imprisonment. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has granted a pardon to Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a high-profile Egyptian-British activist whose repeated detentions and hunger strikes made him a global symbol of opposition...

Pharaoh's Gold Bracelet Vanishes From Cairo Lab
Pharaoh's Gold Bracelet
Met an Unfortunate Fate
UPDATED
Sep 19, 2025 1:10 PM CDT

Pharaoh's Gold Bracelet Met an Unfortunate Fate

Artifact adorned with lapis lazuli was undergoing restoration in Cairo when it was taken

(Newser) - The fate of a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet once owned by the Egyptian pharaoh Amenemope has been determined, and it's not a pleasant ending. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior on Thursday said the bracelet, which was undergoing restoration in an Egyptian Museum lab, was removed from the safe where...

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