This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ...

When we think of Egyptian treasures, we think of Cairo or London. But Florence holds a different, more intimate key to the ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum has begun reassembling a boat belonging to Pharaoh Khufu in its exhibition hall. The cedarwood vessel, one of two found with King ...

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 ...

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

A cedarwood boat belonging to Egyptian Pharaoh King Khufu is being assembled at the Grand Egyptian Museum. The project, ...

It’s 11am in the Valley of the Kings by the time I emerge, blinking into the sun, from the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun ...

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 ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

An ancient boat belonging to Egyptian Pharaoh King Khufu is being reassembled at the Grand Egyptian Museum. The cedarwood ...