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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 first people ever to speak to each other were Adam and Eve, around 6,000 BC. They were spending their third Christmas together — always a good excuse for conversation, dancing, and merriment. It ...

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

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