Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum inaugurated with lavish ceremony

Egypt held the official inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Pyramids on Saturday, in a lavish ceremony with dancers and stars wearing colourful and golden pharaonic ...

Met Museum’s first Egypt show in over a decade brings ancient gods and goddesses to life

It's been more than a decade since the last big ancient Egypt show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now comes “Divine Egypt.” The lavish show explores how ancient Egyptians depicted their ...
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Ancient Egyptian gods have gathered in New York in Met Museum’s first Egypt show in over a decade

It also highlights the methods by which people animated the gods for daily veneration, establishing a crucial link between ...

They mummified a modern human with ancient tools. It got messy.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...
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3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian whistle was likely used by police officer tasked with guarding the 'sacred location' of the royal tomb

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 3,300-year-old bone whistle carved out of a cow's toe, and it may have been used by an ancient "police officer." A 3,300-year-old whistle carved out of a ...