Netherlands to return 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt

The Netherlands will return a 3,500-year-old sculpture that turned up at a Dutch art fair to Egypt, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Sunday during a visit to the country, where he met with President ...

More than $1 billion and two decades later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is — finally — ready to share its treasures

After innumerable interruptions, delays and setbacks, the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization comes to ...

7 priceless artifacts you won't find at the new Grand Egyptian Museum

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

They mummified a modern human with ancient tools. It got messy.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...