A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed ...

Slightly apart from the main GEM complex stands the Khufu’s Boats Museum, home to some of the world’s oldest surviving wooden ...

In an expansive conversation, Egypt’s ambassador to India Kamel Zayed Galal speaks about the world’s largest museum dedicated ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

The Colossi of Memnon, a pair of statues each depicting the seated Amenhotep III (r. ca. 1390–1352 B.C.), once stood at the first pylon, or gateway, of the pharaoh’s enormous mortuary temple in Thebes ...

Because these objects are anchored to specific historical contexts, their ages provide a reliable snapshot of the period. The ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

As the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the memorial to another King Tut lies forgotten in the backyard of a Washington ...

How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...

Philip Breckner, Discover Egypt director, said: “With the GEM now fully open, Egypt has entered a new chapter. The museum is ...

Dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III, who ruled over Egypt between 1391 and 1353 BC, Aten is the largest ancient ...