Forgotten by time and obscured by the desert, a collection of ancient burials — and their treasures — went unnoticed in Egypt. Not anymore. A joint team of Egyptian and Japanese archaeologists ...
Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...
CAIRO – King Tut hasn’t been around for a few thousand years, but his power remains: after a botched repair job of the famed pharaoh’s beard left scratches on his burial mask, Egyptian prosecutors ...
A century ago this October, Egyptologist Howard Carter and his colleagues opened the innermost coffin of the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus for the first time in almost 3250 years. Inside they ...
ST. LOUIS -- The Saint Louis Art Museum will keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask unless it gets more proof it belongs to Egypt. The museum won't meet a Monday deadline set by Egyptian antiquities ...
Archaeologists excavating the Saqqara site in Egypt found burials from over 4,600 years ago, masks, amulets and other ancient artifacts, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...