In the works for decades, the massive, often overwhelming museum has finally opened to the public, displaying a trove of ...

Woolworth, realized in 1920 by architect John Russell Pope in the Egyptian Revival style. Think: hieroglyphic-lined pillars ...

For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...

Here are some long hidden artifacts—from King Tut's treasures to underwater antiquities—getting their debut at the Grand ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened it doors on November 1, 2025. AUC community members weighed in on what the opening means for ...

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...

It’s the stuff of Saturday matinees at the local cinema. Think of movies like 1932’s “The Mummy”—Egyptian Deco, the Scroll of Thoth, ossified eyelids opening. Or that midcentury one-two punch of Jules ...

(AP Photo/Amr Nabil) Touted as the world’s biggest museum dedicated to a single ancient civilization, the new building, in ...