After a protracted legal and diplomatic effort, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus has been returned to the country.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A millennia-old Egyptian artifact was found in a shipment to the port at Memphis, Tennessee, officials say. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered the artifact on Aug ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a young pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness. This 110 kg pure gold mask once covered the mummy of Tutankhamun (reigned ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The federal government has seized back 14 Egyptian artifacts collectively valued at millions of dollars — at least one of which was on its way to a private collector in Edgewater — the U.S. Attorney’s ...

The United States is an excellent hub for discoveries. Lake Michigan has just produced a rare tugboat, linked to the wreck of the J.C. Ames. However, the U.S. is not known for the Panel of Fayoum ...

The United States government has finalized the seizing of more than one dozen Egyptian artifacts smuggled into the country illegally. and at least one of those shipments was bound for a private ...

CAIRO(AP) — After two decades of anticipation and countless delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is finally having its grand reveal. The museum, which is set to officially open Saturday, highlights Egypt ...

Artifacts from a long-lost underwater city are going on view in Paris this September. Osiris, Sunken Mysteries of Egypt at the Institut du Monde Arabe debuts the discoveries at Thonis-Heracleion and ...

A Brooklyn man who trafficked hundreds of stolen Egyptian antiquities through JFK Airport will spend months behind bars. Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, was sentenced to six months in prison in Brooklyn ...