The break-in at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum could have been a disaster of historic proportions, a repeat of the rape of Baghdad’s multi-millennial heritage after Iraq’s equivalent museum was looted in ...

The golden funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo — Khaled DESOUKI After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask ...

When my mom asked me if I wanted to accompany her on a trip to Egypt, I said absolutely! I had been to the Middle East before, and I’d fallen in love a bit with the region. But Egypt was a new place I ...

The Rosetta Stone was taken from Egypt by British troops in 1801. Detail of the Rosetta Stone, on view at the British Museum in London, 2022. Photo: Amir Makar / AFP via Getty Images. The long-awaited ...

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions. You won't find the western Luxor Obelisk at the Grand Egyptian ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been heralded as one of the biggest cultural openings of the year. Located near the Pyramids of ...

An Egyptian museum housing over 50,000 ancient artifacts that took two decades and $1 billion to build opened on Saturday just outside Cairo. Dignitaries from around the world were present for the ...