From the banks of the Nile to the grand halls of museums across Europe, Egypt’s ancient wonders continue to capture imaginations everywhere. Over time, many of these masterpieces have traveled far ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

A 3,500-year-old sculpture believed to have been stolen during the Arab Spring will be returned to Egypt, the Dutch ...

Egypt officially opened on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase of pharaonic grandeur ...

Egypt at last opened the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday as performers dressed in white tunics embroidered with designs inspired by ancient frescoes, greeted guests.

We’ve all grown up hearing tales that started as “That couldn’t possibly be true…” and later morphed into “Wait — it was true ...

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.