Some of the galleries in the museum near the Giza pyramids are now open to the public

Other blockbuster exhibitions at the museum next year will focus on luxury brand Cartier, ancient Egypt and the pioneering work done by disabled people in the world of design

The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections

Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria

Tiny cut marks found on lesions inside the skull suggest that physicians working thousands of years ago may have operated on tumours

The discovery of the L-shaped object was made in an ancient Egyptian elite cemetery beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu

The Egyptian items repatriated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office this week, collectively valued at $1.4m, include a wood coffin face and a royal alabaster vase

Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970

Archeologists exhumed the primates' skeletons from Egypt's Valley of the Monkeys to discover how they lived 2,500 years ago

Serop Simonian was arrested in his hometown of Hamburg and transferred to France

The annual exhibition is one of several contemporary art events taking place in the region

The mission of the project, designed by OMA architects, is to make the museum more accessible to the public

The company’s case against Oxford-based American papyrist Dirk D. Obbink revolves around ancient papyrus fragments it purchased for its Washington, DC institution, the Museum of the Bible

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Pharaoh exhibition will open next year with 500 pieces from the London institution's permanent collection

The fragment, plundered in the 1980s or 1990s, was seized in a criminal case in Geneva

The show tracks the influence of ancient Egypt on musicians such as Beyoncé, Miles Davis and Fela Kuti, however, the country's tourism and antiquities ministry has accused the curators of "Afrocentrism"

The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden has reportedly been criticised for “portraying Tutankhamun as Black”

Pioneering research by a National Museums of Scotland curator finds statue reflects a village of eminent tomb-makers

The international team of scientists used radiography and endoscopy techniques to peer inside the structure

Excavations at Tell Timai in northern Egypt has found remains from the failed Great Revolt against the Ptolemaic rulers

A traveling exhibition about the Pharoah of Pharaohs includes ancient artefacts on loan from Egypt, curatorial texts and a $20 VR experience “guided” by Ramses II’s queen, Nefertari

Statement comes after Berlin state secretary for diversity and anti-discrimination spoke out in favour of restituting the artefacts to their countries of origin

Travelling show debuted at the Getty and now opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned

A Spanish archaeological mission found the tombs late last year

A new exhibition based around the Rosetta Stone marks 200 years since hieroglyphs were deciphered

To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask

Show at Norwich's Sainsbury Centre includes work by contemporary artists to aid a postcolonial interpretation of Egypt's heritage