Egypt held the official inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Pyramids on Saturday, in a lavish ceremony with dancers and stars wearing colourful and golden pharaonic costumes.

Most comprehensive study of the temple complex and its surrounding land and water scapes identifies the earliest period of occupation and points to a possible connection with a creation myth. An inter

The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s last big Egypt show,

It also highlights the methods by which people animated the gods for daily veneration, establishing a crucial link between the human and divine realms.

GEM is being hailed as the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilisation, with over 50,000 artefacts chronicling the grandeur of ancient Egypt.

An exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how the gods were portrayed by Egyptians both royal and common.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient mummification techniques.

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 3,300-year-old bone whistle carved out of a cow's toe, and it may have been used by an ancient "police officer." A 3,300-year-old whistle carved out of a cow's toe bone has been discovered in Akhetaten (modern-day ...