Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...

Two decades after groundbreaking, the Grand Egyptian Museum finally opened last November—roughly the same amount of time it took to build the Great Pyramid next door. Spanning 5.4 million square feet ...

Cairo — Egypt's government hosted dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries on Saturday as it held an official opening ceremony for the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project decades in the ...

North Carolina has a variety of waterfalls that are easily accessible through a quick detour off the highway for family adventures, romantic dates, and others tucked deep into the woods for ...

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Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new secrets from the Old Kingdom. This facial reconstruction of an ancient ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

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The story of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s official opening is nearly as enigmatic as the building of the ancient 4,600-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. Since the first block was laid for the building’s ...

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt unveiled three new tombs of prominent statesman in the Dra Abu al-Naga necropolis in Luxor, officials said Monday. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside. Visitors taking in the ancient pyramids of Giza, ...