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.

As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...

He only ruled for 10 years before his untimely death at age 19, but when his tomb was discovered in 1922 ... perhaps suggesting that the famous queen lies hidden in a burial chamber nearby. The Grand ...

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

Is there or isn’t there a hidden chamber, or chambers, connected to King Tutankhamun’s tomb? Just when we think the story reaches a conclusion a new study emerges throwing the mystery back into the ...

After years of rumors and dead ends, archaeologists might be closer than ever to finding the legendary Queen Nefertiti. But the truth isn’t where the headlines say it is. Republicans are setting a ...

Few ancient Egyptian royals are capable of garnering as much attention, generating frenzy, and stoking controversy globally as the legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti can. Despite having been a powerful ...

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 ...

Egyptian authorities have reopened the tomb of Amenhotep III to the public after more than two decades of restorations. The huge tomb is located in a secluded part of the Valley of the Kings outside ...

Egypt on Saturday opened the tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian ...