More than 30 years in the making, the colossal Grand Egyptian Museum will formally open its doors to the public in a lavish ceremony on Saturday. The $1bn project will be the planet’s largest museum ...

There is nothing about the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) which does not scream “big”. Its mighty size is apparent long before you set foot in the cathedral-like entrance hall – the sheer heft of the ...

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Creating the Grand Egyptian Museum has become a seemingly Sisyphean task, with years of delays suggesting it would be eternally on the verge of opening. These setbacks are understandable. Egypt has ...

CAIRO, Egypt — A giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II will be moved next month to a more serene home near the Great Pyramids from a congested square in downtown Cairo in a bid to save it from corrosive ...

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

Near the Step Pyramid of Djoser, archaeologists uncovered a richly decorated tomb dating to the reign of Ramesses II. The ...

A fragment of the sarcophagus of Ramesses II. Photo: Kevin Cahail An engraved stone slab found under a Coptic building in Abydos, Egypt, is part of the sarcophagus of Ramesses II, according to a team ...

A new museum has opened in Egypt, with around 100,000 artefacts on show. It covers around 7,000 years of the country's history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras. The Grand Egyptian ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, technology, and everyday life are things we will never experience but want to know ...