The Latest Breaking News from Tutankhamun

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and is finally set to formally open in November, Maira Butt writes

The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally nearing its grand opening after two decades of anticipation

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will finally open its doors near the Giza pyramids.

Experts warn structural damage, water infiltration and fungi are accelerating the deterioration of the 3,300-year-old burial site

In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: “Yes, wonderful things.” Within months, however, Carter’s financial backer Lord Carnarvon was dead from a mysterious illness. Over the following years, several other…

The "curse" might well save lives.

A newly unearthed settlement in Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta dates back around 3,400 years to the New Kingdom era and features a temple believed to have been dedicated to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the burial are still emerging. A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology proposes that a set of seemingly plain, functional objects are in fact a key…

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

Archaeologists in Egypt have made an exciting discovery: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, Queen Hatshepsut.

Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the location of his long-lost tomb, one of the last missing royal tombs, has been confirmed by the New Kingdom Research Foundation, a British-Egyptian archaeological team led by Piers Litherland. It’s the first…