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

When Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, he not only found over five thousand artifacts but transformed ...

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an effort aimed at boosting the country's tourism industry and troubled economy.

Egypt will inaugurate its Grand Egyptian Museum at a lavish ceremony hosted by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, officially opening the $1.2bn project it hopes will help attract millions of tourists to ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...

Akhenaten died in 1333 BC and at the young age of nine years ... After World War I, Carter resumed his search for the royal tomb and on 4 November 1922, a member of his team exposed the first step ...

It offers a new way of experiencing Ancient Egypt, not as silent relics behind glass, but as a living civilisation revived ...