A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection ...

Museum officials said the bread is “believed to be up to 3,000 years old.” It’s unclear who collected the sample, when they ...

Egyptian campaigners have demanded its return, saying that the British Museum's holding of the stone is a symbol of "Western cultural violence against Egypt". Elsewhere in Africa, Nigeria has ...

The paddle doll, also from Ancient Egypt, is on display in the British Museum. The doll's hair is of sun-baked clay strung on flax thread. The doll's body is of wood and decorated with fertility ...

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organised by the British Library in 1978. Since 2009 the diptych has been displayed in the museum’s Coptic corridor, which runs between the Egyptian mummies and the prints and drawings galleries.

Egypt is set to inaugurate the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the world's largest museum, on 3 July, CEO of the GEM Authority Ahmed Ghoneim told ON TV on Monday.

An immersive “Tutankhamun experience” combining ancient Egyptian artefacts with cutting ... Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in 1972 was one of the biggest blockbuster ...