For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director told NBC News.

Egypt’s recent political history also plays a factor. During the 2011 Arab Spring, when protesters camped out in downtown Cairo to force Mubarak to step down after three decades in power, its then-main benefactor the US eventually sided with the demonstrators.

The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the west bank of the Nile River in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor.

Egypt is inaugurating on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, two decades in the making, with the aim of drawing more visitors to revitalize the country's tourist industry. Located just outside Cairo on the Giza Plateau which also includes the three pyramids and the Sphinx,

There is perhaps no other period in human history that has captured minds and imaginations quite like ancient Egypt. “Egyptomania,” or the intense interest in all thing Egypt, was first sparked by Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign at the turn of the 19th ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered an ancient fortress that was built along the historic military road referenced in the Book of Exodus.

It's been more than a decade since the last big ancient Egypt show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now comes “Divine Egypt.”

Ancient microbes on walls yield clues. June 10, 2011 — -- King Tut, silent in Egypt's Valley of the Kings for 3,000 years, may still have secrets to reveal. Researchers, examining what remains of ancient microbes on the walls of the young pharaoh's ...