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 ...

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

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

A unique ancient Egyptian statue named Messi, belonging to the Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis. Scholars say it is the only known example of its kind from the Old ...

A study appearing in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology by Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Sarah Abdoh describes a unique Egyptian family statue. The statue, made of limestone, was recovered from Gisr ...

Join Curtis Ryan Woodside, Kara Cooney, Bob Bianchi, Sofia Aziz, Aidan Dodson, Paul Harrison and John J Johnston as we explore the various theories about Nefertiti's mummy and tomb, as well as ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, British girl group that shares its name with an Egyptian queen, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to ...

Divers raise the granite sphinx statue from Abu Qir Bay, Egypt ABU QIR, EGYPT—Egyptian authorities recently began lifting remnants of a 2,000-year-old submerged city from the seabed of Abu Qir Bay ...

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Fragments of a limestone statue of Hatshepsut, photographed in 1929 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives / Antiquity Publications ...

The destruction of statues of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut may not after all have been part of a campaign of retribution by her nephew and successor, King Thutmose III, archaeologists have ...