The seized items include a funerary statue valued at $6 million that likely came from an archaeological site near the ancient ...

Khentika’s tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade. Mastabas were rectangular, ...

One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 10,000 years took place at the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) in the ...

New radiocarbon analysis of Egyptian artifacts shifts the timing of the Santorini eruption to around 1600 BCE, before Egypt’s ...

The federal government has seized back 14 Egyptian artifacts collectively valued at millions of dollars — at least one of which was on its way to a private collector in Edgewater — the U.S. Attorney’s ...

Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

A priceless bracelet belonging to Pharaoh Usermaatre Amenemope was recently stolen from Cairo's Egyptian Museum and melted ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A millennia-old Egyptian artifact was found in a shipment to the port at Memphis, Tennessee, officials say. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered the artifact on Aug ...

At Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, a 3,000-year-old bracelet vanished from a locked safe in the conservation lab. Investigators later discovered that a museum employee had stolen it and passed it through a ...

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

The discovery emerged in the cemetery just north of the Roman walls at a site that once housed the headquarters of Legio XV ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians reacted with outrage this week after officials said that a 3,000-year-old bracelet that had belonged to an ancient pharaoh was stolen from Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum and then ...