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 ...

Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, aged eight or nine, and restored the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion Ancient Egypt is most is known for. But, he was dead and buried by the time ...

The entire contents of Tutankhamun's tomb are on display for the first time since it was discovered by British Egyptologist ...

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

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 ...

On 1 November, leaders from across the globe will arrive in Cairo to take part in a one-of-a-kind international event: the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on the Pyramids Plateau and its ...

Prominent Egyptologists argue that its establishment strengthens their demand for key Egyptian antiquities held in other ...

Construction work and related archaeological endeavors in the German Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt has revealed the foundations of a Roman tumulus, or burial mound. Structures like these are ...

Carter uttered the now-famous words: "Yes, wonderful things!" What they had found was unprecedented —the nearly intact tomb ...

Digging into the dry soil of a field in southern Germany, archaeologists hit some rocks and painstakingly unearthed a massive stone structure. They’d expected to find something at this site — but what ...