The museum space of NYU Abu Dhabi launches its second decade with a mid-career retrospective of Ala Younis, asking how to investigate our temporal universe.

The opening of the £910 million Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has reignited a campaign for Britain to return the Rosetta stone, one of ancient history's most important artefacts.

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 ...

Egypt hopes to bring the world famous bust of Queen Nefertiti, which has been in Berlin since 1913 ... because this is the ...

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.

History books are filled with accounts of legendary beauties and handsome rulers who were considered absolutely irresistible ...

In a world the artist has rendered with such careful continuity and construction, it is those little finishing touches that ...

AUC Press has grown to be the largest English-language academic book publisher in the Middle East, and books on Egyptology ...

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 ...

The Maya Calendar is perhaps the world’s most mysterious. Meanwhile, Nefertiti was Egypt’s most famous and mysterious queen. Married to the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten and living in the 14th century BCE, ...

In the annals of history, there exist tales of love that transcend the boundaries of time and society, romances that have left a permanent mark on the world. From the passionate but doomed romance of ...