Treasures of Tutankhamen will take pride of place when the museum, showing more than 100,000 artefacts from Egypt’s golden ...

Egypt's gem of a museum gears up for grand opening Nestled near the iconic Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is preparing for a lavish opening, featuring a towering statue of Ramses II ...

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In the spring of 2025, the Louvre Museum will dedicate a major exhibition to the Mamluk Sultanate (1250 – 1517), retracing ...

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reviewed preparations for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), scheduled ...

The Great Egyptian Museum plans to become the “Louvre of Archaeology”, a monumental construction to house countless ancient treasures. However, ten years after the actual start of the works ...

To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it’s the City of Love. But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and ...

The Louvre features everything from Egyptian mummy tombs to ancient Grecian sculptures (including the renowned Winged Victory of Samothrace and curvaceous Venus de Milo). There are also thousands ...

NO ONE IS quite sure how the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, got its name. One theory goes that the area was an ancient hunting ground for wolves (lupi in Latin), which used to roam ...

Nestled near the iconic Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is preparing for a lavish opening, featuring a ...

Curators at the Louvre Abu Dhabi explained this ceramic hippo covered in aquatic plants is a symbol of rebirth that was placed in the tomb of an important dignitary during Egypt's Middle Kingdom ...