CAIRO – With much fanfare, Egypt on Thursday placed the ancient statue of one of its most famous pharaohs, Ramses II, in the entrance hall of a new antiquities’ museum under construction near the ...

After two decades of planning and construction delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) a colossal, $1 billion facility, is finally opening ...

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

Marks end of two-decade construction effort; most heavily promoted attraction are treasures from Tutankhamun’s tomb.

The Grand Egyptian Museum has taken 30 years to become a reality, but it is finally set to open its doors, with an equally ...

A cat sits in front of stone parts of the statue of King Psamtek l, before a press conference at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Egypt's antiquities minister Khaled el-Anani, ...

"Beyond the pylons, the temple 's large peristyle court is surrounded by two rows of papyrus-bud columns and contains, on the left, the Abu el-Haggag mosque, and on the right, the tripartite barque ...

Egypt’s antiquities council says archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II. The Supreme Council of Antiquities says the ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt's antiquities council says archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II. The Supreme Council of ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says it has placed the ancient colossus of famed pharaoh Ramses II at the entrance of a museum under construction near the country’s famed pyramids outside ...