The goods shop of the "world’s largest" Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Egypt is unexpectedly led by a Korean. Kwon Jae-young, ...

Once placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife, Egyptian shabtis are getting a new kind of immortality, thanks to ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

After 20 years and a $1 billion construction project, the museum holding around 100,000 artifacts opened to much fanfare ...

Tucked away inside a corner of the University of Kansas’s Lippincott Hall is a little-known museum called the Wilcox ...

When it comes to curating a museum, cultural extraction means taking a cultural object — maybe an idol or figurine that had religious importance to a community centuries ago — and making it available ...

Fireworks and drone spectacles lit up the Saharan night above a gala of Egyptian elite, heads of state, and foreign ...

With the Grand Egyptian Museum now finished in Giza, pressure is mounting on Germany to finally return the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti. Berlin says it was acquired legally. But that argument isn't ...

Egypt has recovered 36 stolen artifacts from the U.S., including rare manuscripts and ancient religious relics. The objects were recovered by the Manhattan D.A., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ...

In her curation of “The World Between,” Dakouri-Hild calls attention to the complexities of cultural formation in geographic ...

Egypt recovered 36 ancient artifacts from the United States, authorities announced on Thursday, in the latest effort to reclaim its ancient heritage as tens of thousands of antiquities are believed to ...

France has moved — narrowly. President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to return parts of Africa’s heritage produced a law enabling the return of 26 royal treasures to Benin and items to Senegal. Madagascar ...