The artefact, seized in Memphis, Tennessee, was en route to a collector who is believed to have falsified statements regarding its value

The former Egyptian antiquities minister leans into the current restitution conversation, calling again for the return of three prized antiquities from European museums

Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

Egyptian government officials say the long-awaited antiquities museum near the Pyramids of Giza will probably open in November this year

The path, which was rediscovered in 1949, connects the temples of Luxor and Karnak in the east of the country

Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Senseneb shabti is now on permanent display at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

The tomb from the time of King Ramesses II is the latest big discovery at Saqqara, south of Cairo

Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet's portrait of Zacharie Astruc

First exhibition of its kind at the 4,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site includes works by local and international artists, including Lorenzo Quinn, Gisela Colón and Sherin Guirguis

Musée Champollion in the south east of France—once owned by descendants of Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion’s family—is also exhibiting 82 artefacts on loan from the Louvre

The 3,000-year-old site is remarkably preserved, with pottery, daily tools and human remains found among its intact walls

CT scans of a mummy from an Australian museum shows the body was covered with a thin painted shell beneath its wrappings

New online platform aims to turn traditionally scholarly subject into something "easily digestible and fun to explore"

Dealer offered to buy the Egyptian artefact for £4m and save it for the nation, claims Art & Antiques Appraisals

An art trail around the 4,500-year-old heritage site will feature works that reflect on ancient Egypt’s enduring influence on artists

We take a tour of Egypt’s vast antiquities museum—the future home of Tutankhamun’s treasures—before its long-awaited opening in 2021

The vessels, containing 2,600-year-old mummified internal organs, are due to be sold in Munich tomorrow

Zahi Hawass, former Egyptian minister of antiquities, corrals international team of experts to press institutions for return of important artefacts

Although the “Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt” is more than 3,000 years old, a new show aims to enliven it with sculptures, sarcophagi and a little help from a video game

We review Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh at London's Saatchi Gallery and talk about the Modern master Marcel Duchamp at the Hirshhorn Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, which opened in London this weekend, will also tour to Australia, Japan, Canada and South Korea

Outspoken former minister also wants to stage the show in Valley of the Kings in 2022

The loaf, made with yeast extracted from an artefact at the MFA Boston, could provide valuable insight into ancient civilisations

Famous Ancient Egyptian artefact transferred from Luxor tomb to Cairo for delicate conservation work ahead of museum opening

Egyptian authorities had tried to stop the sale claiming that the 3,000 year old quartzite sculpture should be repatriated

Researchers have found two anomalies in Egypt's Valley of the Kings

To prevent similar high-profile losses in the future, the Met should hire a permanent, full-time provenance curator

Exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores how Pharaohs and Christians alike went in for vandalising and “killing” icons

150 ancient artefacts will be displayed in a major exhibition commemorating the centenary of the discovery of the pharaoh’s tomb