Ancient Egypt

Mummy in Glasgow may be repatriated to Egypt following removal from display

The mummified remains of the priest Nekht were recently removed from public view at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

New research reveals original colours of Ancient Egyptian shrine at Oxford museum

The Shrine of King Taharqa at the Ashmolean will be recoloured through a digital projection

The name of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian dog depicted in a tomb painting has been revealed—and it has a unique link to the god Anubis

The name and the painted canine’s coat, which echoes the pattern of the clothing of its owner, suggest the important role dogs played in Ancient Egyptian society

Treasures from Ancient Egypt’s ‘Golden City’, and the stories of the people who made them, revealed in San Francisco show

Twenty artefacts from Pharaoh Amenhotep III's abandoned city, discovered on Luxor’s west bank in 2021, are part of the exhibition at the de Young Museum

Three Ancient Egyptian tombs with ‘significant’ inscriptions discovered in Saqqara necropolis

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life

Ancient Egyptian grave with colourful murals discovered in Luxor

Archaeologists hope that further research of the site will reveal more about the lives of the people who lived in the ancient city of Thebes

Tefaf New York wishlist: a Tiffany window and an Egyptian goddess with a nose job

Plus a John Kacere lingerie-clad bottom and a phantasmagorical realm from Cecily Brown

Ruins of ‘unique’, circular water temple discovered in Egypt

Built during the 2nd century, the circular building found in northern Sinai may have been dedicated to the god Pelusius

Ancient Egyptian form of ‘Tipp-Ex’ identified on papyrus at UK’s Fitzwilliam Museum

A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found

Blockbuster show on ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II opens in London

Organised in collaboration with the Egyptian government, the exhibition comes to London in the latest stage of a world tour

2,000-year-old inscriptions found in Valley of the Kings offer fresh insight into Indian presence in Ancient Egypt

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD

Politician demands end to Grand Egyptian Museum ticketing system that leaves locals in ‘secondary category’

The newly opened museum currently allocates a percentage of its daily ticket limit to both Egyptians and foreigners

Netherlands will return stolen ancient statue—featured at Tefaf art fair in 2022—to Egypt

The 3,500-year-old stone head was found to have been “stolen and illegally exported from Egypt” after a rare tipoff from a member of the public

Limestone relief disappears from Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis

The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art

Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Bed’—podcast

Alexander Morrison visits the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, while Ben Luke meets curators from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

Makers of Ancient Egypt to be hailed in Cambridge exhibition

The show at the UK’s Fitzwilliam Museum will bring to life the personalities and remarkable achievements of the civilisation’s craftspeople

Ancient artefacts from sunken city lifted out of Mediterranean near Alexandria

A selection of the objects, some dating back 2,000 years, is now on view at the Alexandria National Museum

Discovery of ancient Coptic city ‘enhances our understanding of early Christianity in Egypt’

The city, which dates from between the third and seventh centuries, includes residences, tombs and two churches

4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, found the marking on an artefact due to go on display in an exhibition this autumn

Should UK museums display mummies? One institution is asking its visitors for their view

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt

Ancient Egyptian queen’s statues were not destroyed out of hatred but ‘deactivated’, study finds

Jun Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some previous scholarship—they appear to have been damaged for “pragmatic and ritualistic reasons”

Three tombs dating back more than 3,000 years uncovered close to Egypt's Valley of the Kings

Painted scenes and a number of objects were found inside the structures, which were built for Ancient Egyptian officials

The Grand Egyptian Museum is due to finally open on 3 July, here’s a sneak peek

The Art Newspaper took a tour of this treasure-stuffed colossus and was impressed by its gargantuan scale and coherent layout

Fit for a king: Egyptian museum in Turin unveils new galleries for monumental ancient sculptures

The dramatic revamp of the Italian institution’s Gallery of the Kings is part of a broader renovation that is due to complete in 2025

Ancient Egyptian priestess’s remains found in father’s tomb

Remains from Middle Kingdom era, along with coffins and funerary objects, were found at the bottom of a hidden shaft south of Cairo

Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum partially opens—but Tutankhamun Gallery remains closed

Some of the galleries in the museum near the Giza pyramids are now open to the public

Let them eat cake: V&A to stage first UK show on Marie Antoinette

Other blockbuster exhibitions at the museum next year will focus on luxury brand Cartier, ancient Egypt and the pioneering work done by disabled people in the world of design

Three looted objects from ancient Egyptian graves returned by the Netherlands

The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections

Australian blockbuster Pharaoh show could inspire British Museum's revamped Ancient Egypt galleries

Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria

‘A milestone in the history of medicine’: ancient Egyptian skull shows possible signs of early cancer surgery

Tiny cut marks found on lesions inside the skull suggest that physicians working thousands of years ago may have operated on tumours