The first of the many wondrous artefacts found in Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun’s tomb were transported carefully through Cairo’s streets on Tuesday to their new home near the Giza Pyramids. The still unfinished new Grand Egyptian Museum at the foot of the pyramids will eventually house the collections of the current brimming museum in the … Read more
The legendary treasure of ancient Egypt’s boy king Tutankhamun, whose tomb British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in 1922, is shrouded in mystery. The tomb of Tutankhamun, who died aged 19 in 1324 BC after nine years on the throne, is pharaonic Egypt’s only mausoleum found so far … Read more
The world-famous Egyptian Museum boasts 160,000 priceless artefacts crammed into the hallways and exhibition halls of a 19th century two-storey building in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The museum’s artefacts “belong to the various Egyptian civilisation periods, starting from pre-historic eras, all the way to the Graeco-Roman period,” Sabah Abdel Razik Saddik, the museum’s general manager, told … Read more
The first of the many wondrous artefacts found in Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun’s tomb were transported carefully through Cairo’s streets on Tuesday to their new home near the Giza Pyramids. The still unfinished new Grand Egyptian Museum at the foot of the pyramids will eventually house the collections of the current brimming museum in the … Read more
The chariot of king Tutankhamun will roll through the Egyptian capital’s streets on Tuesday, only on the back of a truck as curators transport it to its new home near the Giza Pyramids. The wooden chariot will be joined by one of the boy-king’s three funerary beds that were on display in the Cairo museum … Read more
The remains of an Egyptian pyramid built around 3,700 years ago have been discovered near the well-known “bent pyramid” of King Snefru, the antiquities ministry announced on Monday. The pyramid from the 13th dynasty was found in Dahshur’s royal necropolis, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Cairo, it said. “An alabaster… block engraved with … Read more