Perhaps the museum’s biggest draw will be its massive collection related to King Tutankhamun, the boy Pharaoh who ruled Egypt ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

"Before he secured his title as the most celebrated ruler of ancient Egypt, Ramses II's path to the throne was a ruthless ...

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step ...

Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum will house thousands of artifacts,revolutionizing the way we experience ancient ...

There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the ...

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On Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in ...

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

In Egypt, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum in the world dedicated to ancient Egyptian civilization, was officially opened yesterday. The museum is located near the pyramids in Giza, ...