THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be home to more ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more ...

Soon, the elaborately decorated artifact will be transferred to the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum, joining more than 5,000 ...

It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington ...

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

In 2025 archaeologists announced the identification of the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II near Luxor’s famed Valley of ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

In the second in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun published in celebration of the ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

An Egyptian noblewoman in the Amarna style is ... leaving just its artifacts, vivid tomb art, and inscriptions that fewer and fewer people could read. Before being torn into bandages, the Linen ...

Researchers at Washington State University have revived Egyptian blue—the world’s first synthetic pigment.