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 ...

The museum also houses the massive 3,000-year-old statue of Ramses II ... unearthed in 1954. Egypt hopes to bring the world ...

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

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An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken landscape near the ruins of Taposiris Magna. Archeologist Kathleen Martínez and ...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and First Lady Intisar El-Sisi welcomed King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain to Cairo's Ittihadiya Palace. The royal couple arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for ...

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and First Lady Intisar El-Sisi hosted a dinner on Wednesday at the Giza Pyramids in honour of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, marking their first state visit ...

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have revealed a trove of coins, gold jewelry and other artifacts that date to about 2,500 years ago, during the region's Celtic period. According to a translated ...

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