The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum comes with renewed calls for the restitution of the famous Nefertiti bust, which has ...

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

The Bangles' 1986 hit, "Walk Like an Egyptian", has roots in Egypt, of course, but also (surprisingly) England and a small city in Ohio.

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 ...

Another highlight is the 42-metre-long solar boat of King Khufu, or Cheops, unearthed in 1954. Egypt hopes to bring the world ...

The conflict, livestreamed by the official Miss Universe page, seemed to be over certain countries declining to participate in sponsor-related promotional content.

It was inevitable that the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo would accompany its much-delayed opening with demands for the ...

Egyptomania is a cultural craze that keeps coming back, from Hawksmoor to the masters of polychromatic postmodernism ...

The opening of the £910 million Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has reignited a campaign for Britain to return the Rosetta stone, one of ancient history's most important artefacts.