The glistening treasures of King Tut, the popular name of the famous Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, are fascinating a new generation of Londoners more than 25 years after the first exhibition was ...

After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were operating. Bérangère Redon at the HiSoMA Laboratory in Lyon, France ...

"This mummy may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date," an archeologist ... which was covered in gold leaf, inside a large rectangular limestone sarcophagus at the bottom ...

Archaeologists have unearthed of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining settlement hidden beneath the sands, known as the "Lost City of Gold". The long-lost city of Aten, near Luxor, was initially ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot containing gold jewellery and statuettes of a family of gods at an ancient Egyptian temple. The artefacts found at the site included beads ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery ... It included "remnants of a complete factory for extracting gold from quartz veins," a translated version of the statement read.