THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be home to more ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long ...

It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington ...

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

In 2025 archaeologists announced the identification of the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II near Luxor’s famed Valley of ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

In the second in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun published in celebration of the ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

An Egyptian ... art, like this detail from the sixth-century B.C. fresco from the Etruscan Tomb of the Augurs in Tarquinia, Italy, is a major source of information about this ancient culture.

In the previous article, we discussed the results of CT scans performed on the mummy known as the "Younger Lady," discovered ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient astronomy.

Archaeologists in Egypt recently discovered the tombs of three senior statesmen at a burial site in Luxor The tombs were from the New Kingdom (1550–1070 B.C.), and the names and professions of ...