Ancient Egypt
Let them eat cake: V&A to stage first UK show on Marie Antoinette
Other blockbuster exhibitions at the museum next year will focus on luxury brand Cartier, ancient Egypt and the pioneering work done by disabled people in the world of design
Three looted objects from ancient Egyptian graves returned by the Netherlands
The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections
Australian blockbuster Pharaoh show could inspire British Museum's revamped Ancient Egypt galleries
Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria
‘A milestone in the history of medicine’: ancient Egyptian skull shows possible signs of early cancer surgery
Tiny cut marks found on lesions inside the skull suggest that physicians working thousands of years ago may have operated on tumours
Possible Ancient Egyptian structure identified beside the Giza pyramids
The discovery of the L-shaped object was made in an ancient Egyptian elite cemetery beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu
US authorities return antiquities linked with notorious smuggling ring to Egypt
The Egyptian items repatriated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office this week, collectively valued at $1.4m, include a wood coffin face and a royal alabaster vase
Showing respect in the house of the dead: Australian museum removes mummified human remains
Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum
MFA Boston returns Ancient Egyptian child’s coffin to Swedish museum it disappeared from decades ago
The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970
Ancient Egyptians kept baboons in captivity—and then mummified them
Archeologists exhumed the primates' skeletons from Egypt's Valley of the Monkeys to discover how they lived 2,500 years ago
Alleged head of Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring arrested in Paris
Serop Simonian was arrested in his hometown of Hamburg and transferred to France
Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza form backdrop for spectacular contemporary art show
The annual exhibition is one of several contemporary art events taking place in the region
Egyptian Museum in Turin to undergo €23m renovation with two-storey ‘agora’ at its heart
The mission of the project, designed by OMA architects, is to make the museum more accessible to the public
Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit against papyrus scholar changes venues
The company’s case against Oxford-based American papyrist Dirk D. Obbink revolves around ancient papyrus fragments it purchased for its Washington, DC institution, the Museum of the Bible
British Museum makes biggest-ever international loan for Ancient Egypt blockbuster in Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Pharaoh exhibition will open next year with 500 pieces from the London institution's permanent collection
Switzerland returns stolen fragment of ancient Ramesses II statue to Egypt
The fragment, plundered in the 1980s or 1990s, was seized in a criminal case in Geneva
Egypt cancels Dutch museum's dig licence for exhibition exploring Black culture
The show tracks the influence of ancient Egypt on musicians such as Beyoncé, Miles Davis and Fela Kuti, however, the country's tourism and antiquities ministry has accused the curators of "Afrocentrism"
Dutch exhibition on Black culture and ancient Egypt faces social media backlash
The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden has reportedly been criticised for “portraying Tutankhamun as Black”
Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland
Pioneering research by a National Museums of Scotland curator finds statue reflects a village of eminent tomb-makers
Archaeologists discover ancient tunnel at Great Pyramid of Giza that may lead to King Khufu’s tomb
The international team of scientists used radiography and endoscopy techniques to peer inside the structure
'Where the swords met bone': Archaeological evidence found of Ancient Egyptian rebellion mentioned on the Rosetta Stone
Excavations at Tell Timai in northern Egypt has found remains from the failed Great Revolt against the Ptolemaic rulers
A bracing VR ride through Ancient Egypt accompanies Ramses II exhibition
A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari
No plans to return Berlin's star museum attractions Nefertiti and Pergamon Altar, German official says
Statement comes after Berlin state secretary for diversity and anti-discrimination spoke out in favour of restituting the artefacts to their countries of origin
Cy Twombly's ties to the past: exhibition explores how US artist drew on ancient cultures of Greece, Rome and Egypt
Travelling show debuted at the Getty and now opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
US government returns looted sarcophagus to Egypt
A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned
Discovery of 60 mummies in Egyptian city of Luxor points to elaborate burial ground
A Spanish archaeological mission found the tombs late last year
British Museum’s cracking tale of ancient Egyptian code, scholarly rivalry, sex and a magic bath
A new exhibition based around the Rosetta Stone marks 200 years since hieroglyphs were deciphered
Four things you probably didn’t know about Tutankhamun’s mask
To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask
New exhibition looks at how the West created the fantasy of Ancient Egypt
Show at Norwich's Sainsbury Centre includes work by contemporary artists to aid a postcolonial interpretation of Egypt's heritage
US customs agents seize Ancient Egyptian lid for mummy liver
The artefact, seized in Memphis, Tennessee, was en route to a collector who is believed to have falsified statements regarding its value