This tour through the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden moves across some of the museum’s best known collections, from ...

Archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient artifacts in Egypt including Pharaonic funerary furniture, remains of a Roman ...

A Carnegie Museum of Natural History conservator handles a stone stela from the Egyptian collection. The new Carnegie Museum of Natural History exhibit “The Stories We Keep: Conserving Objects From ...

The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...

CAIRO – The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, ...

A team of archaeologists from a Dutch museum has been banned from carrying out excavations in Egypt’s rich Saqqara necropolis, after the museum mounted an exhibition that drew condemnation from ...

Philadelphia residents and visitors were presented with the unique opportunity to take a step back in time Saturday. The Penn Museum on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus saw the grand opening of ...

"A dead Egyptian body, or a live British matriarch," read the clue that Alex Trebek gave Jeopardy! contestants on a February 2015 episode. "What is a mummy?" one of the contestants replied. Though ...