Standing on snakes and having trees fall on him are all in a day's work for the archaeologist who's been called Auckland's Indiana Jones.

Jo Merchant meets the team that's finally revealing Howard Carter's secrets to the world.

For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets.

A dream assignment helps photographer Chris Sisarich fulfill a life-long ambition.

Our small country has a long record in world peacekeeping.

Scenes seen from the cruise ships on the Nile River in Egypt

Jehan Casinader finds the Nile's ancient past has to compete with its colourful present.

Julie Woods never thought she would be able to tour places like the temples at Luxor.

Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot.

Jill Worrall is bewitched by the beauty of the boy king's death mask.

Jill Worrall is whisked through Cairo's cacophony by taxi, boat and horse-drawn carriage.

Following the marriage of President Jacob Zuma to his fifth wife, the Independent looks at the arguments for and against polygamy.

For the next five years, a team of scientists and Egyptologists from the Getty Research Institute in California will intensively study, then attempt to preserve Tutankhamun's tomb - a great archaeological wonder of the world.

Mental health professionals say use of the synthetic opioid Tramadol has risen sharply in Gaza since Israel's three-week Operation Cast Lead offensive.