The Ashmolean's summer exhibition displays objects from ancient Egypt's Amarna Period (about 1350–1330 BC) with material from the archives of Oxford's Griffith Institute, ...

The Egyptian ankh—a symbol of life—has long intrigued scholars and conspiracy theorists alike for its resemblance to the ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Tut-Ankh-Amen's Golden Coffins, the Work of Ancient Egypt's Most Skilled Artisians ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 134 No. 5 (May ...

In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to lend him the services of Harry Burton, a photographer then working for the Museum's Egyptian expedition.