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 ...

Tutankhamun was a pharaoh like no other: a minor during his reign ... but recent studies suggest that it might have been his stepmother Nefertiti. The tomb’s small size also suggests that Tut’s death ...

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 ...

Other clues point to a rushed burial. Tutankhamun’s tomb, discovered in 1922, was unusually small for a pharaoh and lay in a side corridor of the Valley of the Kings. Scholars believe the chamber had ...

This commentary was originally published on the "Foal to Forever" blog of Kyle Rothfus, co-founder of Mareworthy Charities and Horse Husband Stables. When it was announced that American Pharoah will ...