King Tutankhamun's tomb is at risk of collapsing due to structural integrity issues, and one researcher from the University ...

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a megaproject aiming to give ...

Egypt has inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to a single ancient civilization and an ...

Near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is gearing up for its lavish opening on ...

Whether it's an ancient death mask found on an Egyptian sarcophagus or the selfie you have just cropped on your phone, we have been creating portraits for centuries. So why do we love them so much?

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

The towering $1 billion facility, which has been more than 20 years in the making, is expected to draw more than 5 million ...