The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

French and Egyptian archaeologists exploring ancient Egypt's Tanis necropolis found a puzzling body in the tomb of a king.

The new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is expected to attract up to eight million visitors a year and give a huge boost to Egyptian tourism.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in ...

New find of 225 ushabti statues in Egypt may identify Pharaoh Sheshonq III’s sarcophagus and rewrite Third Intermediate ...

In the clay-shaded gloom of the northern chamber of the tomb of Pharaoh Osorkon II, meticulous archaeological cleaning work ...

The opening of an exhibition dedicated to the special relationship between Nefertari's tomb and Italy brought the world's most famous Egyptologist, Zahi Hawass, and the Italian ambassador to Cairo, ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

The finding confirms that the pharaoh expected quite the pampered afterlife and hints at a potential musical-chairs situation ...