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

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

Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world's richest ...

Four children, including a baby, have been taken to hospital after fireworks were thrown into a building housing people applying for international protection. It happened in Drogheda, County Louth, on ...

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

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 ...

The museum also houses the massive 3,000-year-old statue of Ramses II, one of the country's most powerful ... Egypt hopes to ...

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.

EXCLUSIVE: A trio of Canal+ history docs have notched wide international sales. Series on Alexander the Great, the Egyptian ruler, Ramses, and the Vikings have all found new international homes during ...

One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in ...