CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...

Found in the sand-riddled mountains of Egypt’s Eastern Desert, a discovery is shedding a dark light on one of the most powerful ancient civilizations. Iron shackles have been uncovered in the ruins of ...

Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

It couldn’t be more aptly named because everything about the Grand Egyptian Museum is just that. It’s the world's largest ...

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Egyptian officials are frantically searching for an ancient limestone painting taken from an ancient tomb — the latest in a series of high-profile artifact thefts. Mohamed Ismail, secretary-general of ...

Federal authorities have recovered more than a dozen ancient Egyptian artifacts illegally smuggled into the United States and destined for private collectors, including a funerary statue valued at ...

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