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The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo was scheduled to open this month, but the war in Gaza has postponed the celebration.
CAIRO] In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped ...
The grand opening of the GEM, which was set for July 3 – much delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises, and the COVID ...
More than 4,000 years after the pyramids, Egypt’s leaders are pinning hopes on the Grand Egyptian Museum to revive national ...
Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has strongly reaffirmed a strict ban on the export of archaeological objects ...
When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement on Monday, July 14, 2025, that the production team of the popular ...
More than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists labored quietly for over a decade to restore thousands of artefacts for the ...
As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
The Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the city’s largest-ever exhibition of Egyptian antiquities beginning November 20. Featuring 250 relics, including feline mummies and a statue of Tutankhamen, the ...