There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Khaled DESOUKI/AFP/AFP As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the ...

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures -- over 4,500 artefacts -- was displayed together for the ...

In an expansive conversation, Egypt’s ambassador to India Kamel Zayed Galal speaks about the world’s largest museum dedicated ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness. This 110-kilogram solid gold mask once covered the mummy of Tutankhamun ...

A pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in Egypt for the first time since Tutankhamun’s in 1922. King Thutmose II’s tomb was found by a British-Egyptian team of archaeologists in the Theban Necropolis near ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public -- more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the ...

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 ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian Museum in Cairo acknowledged on Saturday that one of its greatest treasures, the mask of King Tutankhamun, had been crudely glued back together after being damaged, but ...