The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in ...

From Prisoner 951, a fact-based drama about the detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the new edition of the BBC’s landmark ...

The war on Gaza has been the focus of numerous significant exhibitions around the world, including the recent Istanbul show A Cloud in My Hand, which closed in early November. Out of 850 monochromatic ...

A team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to restore a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn inscribed on cuneiform ...

Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts ...

One of the most fascinating discoveries of ancient Egypt was the discovery of the Egyptian Coffin Texts, a collection of spellbinding funerary spells and incantations inscribed on coffins, sarcophagi, ...

The Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt. It is "highly likely" the stone head, dating from the time of the pharaohs, was plundered during the Arab Spring in ...

Egypt's historic treasures can be found in famous museums all around the world. Those in Egypt's possession, though, finally have a museum with the space to house and display them properly. The Grand ...

Massive statues and historic artefacts from the country's ancient civilisation will be on display across the 24,000 square metres (258,000 square feet) of permanent exhibition space. Here are five ...

Anti-Christian violence has broken out in the village of Nazlat Jalf in Egypt’s Minya province, after rumours circulated online about a relationship between a young Christian man and a Muslim girl. A ...