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

Other fascinating atefacts include a 3,200-year-old obelisk of Ramesses II, a powerful pharaoh, and his 11m-high statue ...

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.

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

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

Pharaoh Ay is known in popular books as the person who may have murdered Tutankhamun. Usually, he is described as a pharaoh-monster of the 18th dynasty. However, the real history is very different. Ay ...

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 ...

(Read part 1) So if the Garden of Eden was located at Amarna, then what of Adam and Eve? The first thing to note is that Adam and Eve were the first man and first woman. But then so too were Pharaoh ...

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 ...

One of the largest tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings reopened to visitors after more than 20 years of renovation. The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 ...

Nefertiti’s 3,300-year-old limestone bust, colored with gypsum lacquer, was unearthed in 1912 at Armana, Egypt. It’s now in the North Dome Room of Berlin’s Neues Museum. Credit: Photo by Barry Evans ...