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.

Along with other chests found in the tomb, they generally contained personal items such ... While radar testing once disproved the theory that Nefertiti (his predecessor) was buried in the same place ...

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 ...

Most of the galleries at the site have been open to the public since last year, however, the Tutankhamun exhibit will be a new addition, as well as a 4,500-year-old funerary boat of Khufu - one of the ...

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 ...

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

After years of rumors and dead ends, archaeologists might be closer than ever to finding the legendary Queen Nefertiti. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a routine water retention project in the Bavarian countryside at Wolkertshofen in Germany, archaeologists spent the ...