Another highlight is the 42-metre-long solar boat of King Khufu, or Cheops, unearthed in 1954. Egypt hopes to bring the world ...

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning ...

Egypt held the official inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Pyramids on Saturday, in a lavish ceremony with dancers and stars wearing colourful and golden pharaonic ...

Prime minister Rutte told president el-Sisi that the artifact, looted amid the 2011 Arab Spring, will be handed to the ...

The century­-long battle over the return of the bust of the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti from Germany to its homeland is continuing. In the North Dome Room of the Neues Museum in Berlin stands the ...

The opening of the £910 million Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has reignited a campaign for Britain to return the Rosetta ...

Egyptomania is a cultural craze that keeps coming back, from Hawksmoor to the masters of polychromatic postmodernism ...

The American University in Cairo (AUC) has established the Amelia Peabody Endowed Professorship and Research Fund in ...

AUC Press has grown to be the largest English-language academic book publisher in the Middle East, and books on Egyptology ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion (€862 million) project, is a monumental museum dedicated to its ancient civilisation.