Belgian authorities on Friday said they had handed over a roughly 2,000-year-old sarcophagus to Egypt, a decade after it was ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient ...

Belgian authorities returned an approximately 2,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus to Egypt on Friday, after it was confiscated by police in Brussels a decade ago. Prosecutors stated that the ancient ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...

Egyptian Hieroglyphics [photomechanical print] Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery ...

Impressive in size, design and content, the GEM’s opening may be tainted by politics and connotations of authoritarianism ...

While the Grand Egyptian Museum hasn’t officially opened yet, it has been opening in stages over the last two years. Here’s what it’s like.