The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has denied reports claiming that November 4 was officially set as the ...

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly chaired a high-level meeting Tuesday, July 22, 2025, of the supreme committee tasked with ...

Spokesman for the Cabinet Mohamed el-Homsani affirmed on Wednesday July 23, 2025 the government's full readiness to host the inauguration ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), denying the ...

Impressive in size, design and content, the GEM’s opening may be tainted by politics and connotations of authoritarianism ...

Mertah is one of more than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists who have laboured quietly for over a decade to restore ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh’s golden mask in ...

More than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists labored quietly for over a decade to restore thousands of artefacts for the ...

The GEM's Tutankhamun collection was gathered from several museums and storage sites, including the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (pictured).

From gilded coffins to golden amulets, many of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s items have not undergone restoration since their 1922 discovery.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has strongly reaffirmed a strict ban on the export of archaeological objects.