Archaeologists were amazed to discover that a false door at an excavation site led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty, per the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

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A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

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Leicester's new multi-million pound Roman museum is to open in July, the city council has confirmed. The revamped Jewry Wall Museum will feature the remains of a Roman bath house and more than 100 ...

Walking into the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), one of the first things you’ll see is a 36-foot-tall, 82-ton granite statue of Ramesses II, a mighty Egyptian pharaoh who ruled more than 3,300 years ago.

The Grand Egyptian Museum will undergo a brief closure from June 15 to July 5 as it enters its final stretch of preparations before fully opening to the public, according to local media reports.

The name Sham el-Nessim derives from the Coptic language, which is itself derived from the ancient Egyptian language. The original pronunciation was "tshom ni sime", which means garden meadows.

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists working at Abydos, an archaeological site in an ancient city, discovered a new tomb. Credit: Siri Challa Penn researchers, working in conjunction with Egyptian ...

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That’s exactly what researchers at the University of Manchester did with a 3,000-year-old, 7.2-foot-long crocodile corpse, kept at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and known simply as 2005.335.

Egyptian Hall, with its walls and columns ornately decorated with hieroglyphs and Egyptian art, is a crowd favorite, and, according to McKee and Hopkins, all of the decorations are historically ...