Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to ...

Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain ... "A pharaoh like Ramses — can you imagine how rich he was and what kind of artifacts could be inside? The tomb full of gold and silver ...

In contrast to the cavernous crypts of his successors, Seti I and Rameses II, his is but antechamber ... The most important surviving artifacts were well-executed paintings from the Book of ...

Amenhotep III’s body was found in 1898 hidden along with more than a dozen other royals in KV35, the tomb of his own grandfather, Amenhotep II. GrandmotherTiye ... pharaoh's name was Ramses ...

The Great Egyptian Museum is part of a huge boom in tourism.

(AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam, File) King Ramses II statue is displayed at the Grand ... More than 100,000 artifacts of Egypt’s ancient treasures will be displayed in the world’s largest ...

Billed as the “largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilization,” it will reportedly display over 100,000 artifacts in ... monumental statue of Ramses II that is over 43 ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) recently welcomed Mr. Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, Burkina Faso’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation, and Mrs. Yuriko Koike, the Mayor of Tokyo, Japan, ...

Like Chen, more Chinese tourists are traveling to Egypt to explore the mysterious pyramids, temples, museums and the Nile ...