The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

It all started on 6 December 1912, when a team of German archaeologists led by Ludwig Borchardt discovered the bust alongside ...

Treasures from Egyptian Museums in a major exhibition organised in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

A discovery within the Great Pyramid of Giza could soon reshape our understanding of ancient Egypt, according to tantalizing ...

From afar, the Grand Egyptian Museum looks like a curtain made of tiny glass pyramids. The alabaster-and-glass façade stretches through the Giza desert and lends the real pyramids a dramatic new frame ...

As the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) captured the world’s attention earlier this month, interest in Egypt’s ancient artefacts and the museums that house them has been reignited. After all ...

The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum comes with renewed calls for the restitution of the famous Nefertiti bust, which has been in Berlin since 1913.She is an enduring global symbol of beauty, ...

BERLIN — Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks — the bust of Nefertiti has two faces. A team led by Dr.

The Amarna period, roughly 1353-1336 BCE, introduced a new form of art that completely contradicted what was known and revered in the Egyptian culture. The pharaoh Amenhotep IV not only changed his ...

Few ancient Egyptian royals are capable of garnering as much attention, generating frenzy, and stoking controversy globally as the legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti can. Despite having been a powerful ...

Nefertiti’s 3,300-year-old limestone bust, colored with gypsum lacquer, was unearthed in 1912 at Armana, Egypt. It’s now in the North Dome Room of Berlin’s Neues Museum. Credit: Photo by Barry Evans ...

It’s not perfect and it needs work, but there’s a lot to enjoy in Nefertiti: A Musical Romance. Billed as a new musical, but an entire generation in the making, this production bears a history as ...