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.

Jill Worrall prepares to intervene in a debate over a felucca ride.

East of the Nile, Jill Worrall finds two neighbourhoods where life continues at a less frenetic pace than in the rest of the city.

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.