The mummies of King Ramses II, Queen Hatshepsut and 20 other ancient royals were the highlight of Egypt’s celebrations on Saturday in honor of the opening of the main hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Cairo. The mummy parade wound through the streets from Tahrir Square…
The United States has returned a gold coffin worth US$4 million to Egypt, after it was stolen from the Minya region during the 2011 revolution, made its way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and was discovered on display in February. The ceremony to return the Gold…
Dozens of cat mummies, along with 100 wooden gilded statues of cats and a bronze one dedicated to a cat goddess, have been unearthed in a new archaeology find in Egypt – demonstrating once again that the ancients adored their cats as much as modern humans do. The find was…
Egyptian officials arrested seven men on Tuesday after they discovered an antiquities site dating to the Greco-Roman era and were illegally excavating and removing artifacts from the site. The site near Minya, along the Nile River south of Cairo, was an ancient city with archaeological structures including tombs and a…
When the owner of a rare carving found in Morocco finally wanted to know its true value, he was in for a surprise – and something of a windfall, because the small statue he took home to Ireland has turned out to be worth tens of thousands of euro. That’s…
A popular American television show has upset many Algerians because of its cliché-driven portrayal of the North African nation, one they see as negative no matter how fictional the drama. The “Madam Secretary” series stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst who serves as the United States…
The United Nations Security Council has moved to strengthen protections against the destruction and trafficking of priceless antiquities and humanity’s shared cultural heritage. Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO – the United Nations entity that helps to protect cultural sites across the globe – hailed the adoption of a new…
It probably will not happen again in this life, says German Egyptologist Dietrich Raue. That’s what Raue told the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper after he and Egyptian archaeological partner Ayman Ashmawy discovered a colossal statue more than three millennia old at an ancient temple site of Heliopolis. The stunning discovery…
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has released a “red list” for West Africa that highlights the cultural objects and artifacts most at risk of being looted, stolen, or illegally exported and trafficked. The Red List of West African Cultural Objects at Risk is similar to ICOM lists issued for…
An ancient stele stolen from an Egyptian temple will return to its home, following an investigation into the artifact that began in 2014. It began when Swiss authorities discovered the stone slab during a customs control inventory in Geneva, where police opened a criminal case into the unknown object’s provenance….