After two decades and an estimated cost of $1bn, the Grand Egyptian Museum opens its doors to the public on Tuesday.

History comes alive in Cairo as the Grand Egyptian Museum reveals Tutankhamun’s full tomb and 7,000 years of Egyptian ...

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and ...

The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic ...

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 ...

Near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is gearing up for its lavish opening on Saturday after two decades of delays.

Egypt has inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, the centerpiece of an effort to boost tourism and the country’s troubled ...

Just inside the entrance of Cairo’s must-see Egyptian Museum is an unassuming display case off to the left. Competing for attention in a sea of head-turning antiquities — from towering statues to ...

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...