The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

This month’s official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum has sparked renewed calls to reclaim iconic ancient Egyptian ...

It is customary for world leaders to gather at international political and economic summits; yet their presence in Cairo for the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum of such grandeur, stands as ...

The highly anticipated Grand Egypt Museum opened its doors to the public in Cairo on Tuesday. Amidst the collection, there's a space reserved for a 3,300-year-old painted stucco-coated limestone bust ...

She is an enduring global symbol of beauty, power and mystery who has fascinated Hitler, Beyonce and Arab Spring activists alike: Queen Nefertiti, whose name translates to "the beautiful one has come, ...

French Egyptologist Marc Gabolde, specialist in the Eighteenth Dynasty and the Amarna period, argues that the mummy known as the "Younger Lady" discovered almost a century ago, is actually the famous ...

The Maya Calendar is perhaps the world’s most mysterious. Meanwhile, Nefertiti was Egypt’s most famous and mysterious queen. Married to the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten and living in the 14th century BCE, ...

Ahmed Shawkat is a CBS News producer based in Cairo. He has worked for CBS News since 2016, prior to which he worked with several European networks including TVE, ZDF, SVT and Yle. The ...

Join Curtis Ryan Woodside, Kara Cooney, Bob Bianchi, Sofia Aziz, Aidan Dodson, Paul Harrison and John J Johnston as we explore the various theories about Nefertiti's mummy and tomb, as well as ...