Hidden behind pyramid-like mounds of construction dirt and tucked deep inside the innermost chamber of the North Carolina Museum of Art lies a little piece of ancient history. Temples and Tombs: ...

A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s tomb. Its estimated price is up to $675,000. By Alex Marshall Reporting from ...

Covers topics: neolithic and predynastic Egypt; early dynastic Egypt: religious beliefs, the palette of Narmer, representation of the human figure; the Old Kingdom: funerary architecture, sculpture, ...

A wall from Tutankhamun’s tomb, restored ancient burial chambers, frescoes thousands of years old… In Luxor, the Egyptian authorities have just unveiled several remarkable discoveries to the public.

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 ...