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

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 ...

History, science, art and everything in between can be found within the walls of thousands of museums around the world, so ...

Bolton Library and Museum is set to bring the animals of ancient Egypt to the Northwest.

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 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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday, the world’s largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the ...

"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 ...