From the private collection of Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, the British Museum has grown to become one of the world's most ...

These galleries, in chronological and thematic order, feature a selection of the collection's 15,000 artifacts as the museum ... of Egypt in the late 18th century, followed by British and German ...

The new Giza attraction may be several years overdue, but there’ll never be a better reason to book your next holiday to Egypt There is nothing about the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) which does ...

Voices from Ancient Egypt. An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings by RB Parkinson (British Museum Press, 1991) This has a good translation of the letters of Heqanakhte, accompanied by commentary.

The British Museum announced it has decided to close some of its galleries after a recently fired contractor disabled several of the museum's systems. “An IT contractor who was dismissed last ...

The gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamun Two free exhibitions offering a journey into Ancient Egypt have opened at Hull's Ferens Art Gallery. Visitors will be ...

The British Museum ... of its IT network. The museum alleged that the contractor entered the building and accessed the systems before being arrested. It led to some galleries being closed on ...

"The Egyptian gallery is set for a renovation ... which founded the Indian Museum, by British officer Lt. E C Archbold of the Bengal Light Cavalry in 1834. According to records, Archbold found ...

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 ...

The British Museum curator Zoe Cormack believes ... which runs between the Egyptian mummies and the prints and drawings galleries. Research on the diptych raises the intriguing possibility that ...

A 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, one of Indian Museum’s major attractions, has been temporarily shifted from its usual display space in the first-floor Egyptian gallery ... and asked the Coote (the ...

From 1 December until 7 January, visitors to the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo were allowed to take pictures with cameras and mobile phones inside the museum without paying additional fees.