This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ...

The museum will hold more than 100,000 artifacts. Sharm El-Sheikh -- Egypt said the best way to mark the centenary of Tutankhamun tomb's discovery would be inaugurating a new state-of-the-art museum ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a young pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness. This 110 kg pure gold mask once covered the mummy of Tutankhamun (reigned ...

Tutankhamun, the famed ancient Egyptian "boy king" who ascended the throne as a child, died when he was around 19 years old, sometime between 1327 B.C and 1323 B.C. But Tut's death was unexpected, and ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

The new museum will show all of the artefacts discovered by Howard Carter and his team in the tomb of Tutankhamun Near one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu at ...

The golden sarcophagus of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in a restoration lab at the newly-built Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza — Khaled DESOUKI It's one of the 20th century's most iconic photos: ...

The wonders of ancient Egypt are riddled with mysteries that even experts can't solve. Experts even went so far as to create a separate body of knowledge dedicated to everything there is to know about ...

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years of history. The museum's biggest attraction is the full ...