February 18 – Archaeologists announce the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II in Thebes, in what is the first ancient Egyptian royal tomb to be discovered since that of Tutankhamun in 1922.[3]
March
March 3 – A minibus and a truck collide head-on in Asyut, killing 13 people.[4]
March 13 – A train collides with a minibus at an unauthorized crossing in Ismailia Governorate, killing eight people.[5]
March 27 – A tourist submarine sinks in the Red Sea off the coast of Hurghada, killing six Russian nationals.[6]
May
May 19 – An unspecified training aircraft of the Egyptian Air Force crashes in an undisclosed location, killing its entire crew.[7]
27 June – A minibus collides with a truck in Ashmoun, Monufia, killing 19 people and injuring three others.[9]
July
1 July – An oil-drilling vessel capsizes in the Gulf of Suez off the coast of Ras Ghareb, killing four people and leaving three others missing.[10][11]
30 August – A passenger train traveling from Matrouh Governorate to Cairo derails in the west of the country, killing three people and injuring 94 others.[17]
September
16 September – Authorities announce the theft of a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet dating from the reign of King Amenemope from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Four people are subsequently arrested, and the artefact is later reported to have been sold and melted down.[18]
22 September – President el-Sisi issues pardons to six people, including political activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah.[19]
26 September – A building partially collapses following a fire in El Mahalla El Kubra, killing eight people.[20]
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