Researchers from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum in the UK made an astonishing discovery. They have uncovered a 4,000-year-old handprint beneath an ancient Egyptian "soul house" during ...

The Statue of Ramesses II in the entrance hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza Following two decades of setbacks, the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has opened its doors, ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking visitors on a journey to ancient Egypt. “Divine Egypt,” which runs through January 19, 2026, is the Manhattan museum’s first major exhibition of ...

Artifacts from a long-lost underwater city are going on view in Paris this September. Osiris, Sunken Mysteries of Egypt at the Institut du Monde Arabe debuts the discoveries at Thonis-Heracleion and ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

After a protracted legal and diplomatic effort, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus has been returned to the country.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A millennia-old Egyptian artifact was found in a shipment to the port at Memphis, Tennessee, officials say. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered the artifact on Aug ...

An Egyptian doctor who smuggled hundreds of artifacts excavated from graves and dig sites in his nation into the U.S. for profit will spend six months in federal prison, a Brooklyn judge ruled ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled artifacts from the United States, concluding a three-year diplomatic effort ...

A Brooklyn man who trafficked hundreds of stolen Egyptian antiquities through JFK Airport will spend months behind bars. Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, was sentenced to six months in prison in Brooklyn ...