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Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...
Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...
Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...
A new Egyptian eatery in Riyadh, Zaha Hadid’s museum rises in Diriyah, and summer festivals kick off across the kingdom.
The 'rediscovery' of the ancient city of Imet, in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, has been hailed a landmark historical find.
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, is now slated to open at the end of 2025. Here's how to get a sneak peek and what's on display.
While the Grand Egyptian Museum hasn’t officially opened yet, it has been opening in stages over the last two years. Here’s ...
Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some girls who worked in textile workshops during the ancient Egyptian Middle ...
DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...
The nation’s preeminent museum returns a stunning collection to view.
A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a large medieval cathedral in the subterranean citadel of Old Dongola, once the capital of the Nubian kingdom, Makuria. Excavations have been ongoing since ...