A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that experts say has also solved a "long-standing ...

A 4,000-year-old limestone relief has mysteriously disappeared from a sealed tomb in Egypt's famed Saqqara Necropolis, raising fresh questions about the security of the nation's ancient treasures. The ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

The missing body of Shoshenq III, the sixth of 11 known pharaohs from ancient Egypt’s 22nd dynasty (945–716 B.C.E.), has unexpectedly turned up in the Tanis tomb of his predecessor, Osorkon II. In a ...

Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

The Hong Kong Palace Museum will host Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums opening on 20 November 2025 and running until 31 August 2026, in a major exhibition organised in ...

An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the restoration lab of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2020. An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus ...