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

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

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Spanning 50 hectares (120 acres), the GEM is twice the size of both Paris's Louvre and New York's Metropolitan, and two and a ...

In the spring of 2025, the Louvre Museum will dedicate a major exhibition to the Mamluk Sultanate (1250 – 1517), retracing the glorious and unique history of this Egyptian-Syriac empire, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egyptian artifacts are showcased at international museums across the Western world. If anyone was determined to see every ...

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

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 ...