When Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, he not only found over five thousand artifacts but transformed ...
The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.
The £760 million megaproject for the first time displays all of King Tutankhamun’s funeral treasures in one place.
As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...
Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an ...
The museum is one of the mega-projects championed by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who since taking office in 2014 ...
Many of the 50,000 artifacts in the GEM were moved from the Egyptian Museum, a packed, century-old building in downtown Cairo ...
Prominent Egyptologists argue that its establishment strengthens their demand for key Egyptian antiquities held in other ...
For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being ...
For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...