A man fishes from a boat on the River Nile, in Cairo, Egypt on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A visitor takes a photo of Pharaonic statues displayed at the Grand Staircase of the Grand Egyptian Museum during a partial trial in Giza, Egypt, on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Tourists visit the Grand Egyptian Museum during a partial trial in Giza, Egypt, on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Pharaonic status displayed at the Grand Staircase of the Grand Egyptian Museum during the trial partial operation in Giza, Egypt, 15 October 2024. The Grand Egyptian Museum is now open for limited trial visits to some completed areas that are open to the public with an advance reservation, while the official opening date is yet to be announced. (Photo by Mohamed Hossam/EPA)





Art installations are displayed during contemporary art exhibition “Forever Is Now” organized by Art D'Egypte the Giza Pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Giza, Egypt on October 24, 2024. The exhibition hosts the works of 12 international artists. (Photo by Mohamed Elshahed/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A professional skydiver flies over the historical site of Giza Pyramids, as they fly over the Pyramid of Menkaure during Egypt International Skydiving Festival ”Jump Like a Pharaoh”, in Giza, Egypt on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A camel driver takes tourists for a ride at the Pyramids Plateau in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A worker carries an ice block at a popular market in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, November 5, 2024. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)





Visitors travel by camels in the area where the pyramids are located, including the largest pyramid of Cheops, also known as The Great Pyramid of Giza (King Khufu), the middle Pyramid of Khafre (King Khafre) and the small pyramid of Menkaure (King Menkaure) in Giza, Egypt on December 09, 2024. Egypt, home to the pyramid of Cheops, one of the seven wonders of the world, was visited by 14.9 million tourists last year. (Photo by Murat Bakmaz/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A camel in a Santa hat on the beach in Egypt in the second decade of December 2024, where Coptic Christians will celebrate Christmas on January 7. (Photo by RUT/Splash News and Pictures)





This handout photo released on December 29, 2024, from the Universtity of Strasbourg and the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (Institut francais d'archeologie orientale –IFAO) shows an archaeologist taking 3D measurements of an Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom sarcophagus discovered in Luxor. Researchers have uncovered a re-inhumed Middle Kingdom sarcophagus in Luxor, Egypt, as part of investigations carried out following the discovery, in 2018 and 2019, of sarcophagi on the same site, a member of the mission said on December 29, 2024. The discovery was made on December 16, 2024, at the very end of a two-month mission, the director of the University of Strasbourg's Institute of Egyptology, who took part in the mission, confirmed to AFP, confirming a report in the regional daily Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA). (Photo by Frederic Colin/AFP Photo)





Tourists visit Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Whale Valley, in Fayoum, Egypt, on December 26, 2024. Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Whale Valley, located in the desert of Fayoum, features invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. It was designated a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in 2005. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An Egyptian poses in front of New Year decorations in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, December 31, 2024. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)





Fireworks explode above the Great Pyramids New Year's celebrations in Cairo on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





A priest leads Orthodox Christmas Eve celebrations at the Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Ahmed Hasan/AFP Photo)





Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass speaks with reporters in front of burial shafts and wooden coffins from the 17th dynasty, during a media event to announce new discoveries by Egyptian archaeological mission he leads at Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor on December 8, 2025. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Tourists fly in hot air balloons over the west bank of the Nile River on January 9, 2025 in Luxor, Egypt. Luxor, which contains the historical city of Thebes, capital of ancient Egypt's pharaohs at the height of their power, is full of pharaonic monuments and other antiquities. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)





Trucks carrying Egyptian humanitarian aid wait to start moving to the Rafah border crossing to enter Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Cairo, Egypt, on January 26, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A truck driver walks near trucks carrying humanitarian aid as he waits to cross into the Gaza Strip at the Rafah border crossing, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A convoy of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid supplies for the Gaza Strip waits at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, about 45 kilometres east of Cairo, on February 16, 2025. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)