Two decades in the making, the museum located near the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx showcases over 50,000 artifacts detailing life in ancient Egypt.

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization and an effort aimed at boosting the country's tourism industry and troubled economy.

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The colossal project dates back to the 1990s. The huge site, next to the pyramids of Giza, is billed as the largest museum in ...

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Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Inheriting Chinese culture is by no means simply reverting to the past or blindly excluding foreign influences; rather, it involves applying ancient knowledge to modern times, adapting foreign ...

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