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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A Brooklyn man who trafficked hundreds of stolen Egyptian antiquities through JFK Airport will spend months behind bars. Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, was sentenced to six months in prison in Brooklyn ...

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 ...

An Egyptian doctor who smuggled hundreds of artifacts excavated from graves and dig sites in his nation into the U.S. for profit will spend six months in federal prison, a Brooklyn judge ruled ...

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 ...

Their design was envisioned as a bridge between ancient history and modern innovation. ‘Designing a museum of this calibre, ...