This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet ...

Inside a pristine glass box at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, King Tutankhamun’s golden mask sits motionless as a sea of ...

Shockingly images have revealed the disturbing manner King Tut was taken from his royal coffin exactly 100 years ago.

“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

The new museum, which has been averaging 19,000 daily visitors, will require online bookings starting December to regulate ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, ...

Eleanor Dobson, researcher in Egyptology, revealed that Howard and his team beheaded and mutilated the mummy to remove it ...

Scientists have found traces of ancient opiates in the residue lining an Egyptian alabaster vase, indicating that opiate use ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum is around 30 minutes’ drive from downtown Cairo and 2km from the Pyramids. You can book tickets and ...

Locally produced knowledge about Egyptology should be the jewel in the crown of the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum, ...

Exactly a century ago, the mummified body of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen was unwrapped for the first time. It was three years ...