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Walking into the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), one of the first things ... When it was rediscovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, it offered scholars rare insight into ancient ...
The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza has (almost) fully opened to visitors – and pictures reveal that the displays are spectacular. Tourists have had a long wait to get a glimpse behind the doors ...
Well, now researchers at the British Museum know. A team of scientists used a noninvasive technique called neutron tomography to peer inside six Egyptian animal coffins that have been sealed for ...
which at present display Egyptian, Assyrian and Greek antiquities. Left: George Osborne, chair of the British Museum’s trustees, claims he was only made aware of the thefts this year ...
The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th century BC. It is the first ...
Hieroglyphs at the British Museum: how the Rosetta Stone opened up 4,000 years of knowledge to the world Egypt archaeologists ... an interesting star calendar inside the inner coffin of a mummy ...
It has been on display at the British Museum since 1802, and the former colonizers of Egypt really don’t want to give it back. The stone is part of a larger stone slab with a message inscribed ...
Scientists have used an innovative imaging technique to peer inside six 2,500-year-old animal coffins from Egypt—without opening ... of the same coffin The British Museum In this case ...
Dr. Monica Hanna is petitioning the British Museum to return treasures to Egypt, including the Rosetta Stone. "Today, the Rosetta Stone for me, is a symbol of Western colonialism over my culture.