A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...

A total of 38 coins found at the site dated back to the Ptolemaic period, (304 to 30BC), when one of Alexander the Great's general's descendants ruled Egypt. The ancient currency featured images ...

Egypt announced on Thursday that it is floating its currency for the first time in decades. MEE looks at what this will mean for ordinary Egyptians, and why the central bank has taken this drastic ...

Currency flexibility has been a key demand by the International Monetary Fund, which approved a 46-month, $3 billion financial rescue package in October. Egypt had been seeking the loan since ...