Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

TODAY is Monday, October 7, the 280th day of 2013. There are 85 days left in the year. 1571 - A combined Austrian, Genoese and Venetian fleet decisively defeats the Turks off Lepanto, Greece. The ...

After two decades of anticipation and countless delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is finally having its grand reveal. The ...

Few stories intertwine history and myth as dramatically as the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb; and the fate of the man who sponsored its discovery ...

History comes alive in Cairo as the Grand Egyptian Museum reveals Tutankhamun’s full tomb and 7,000 years of Egyptian heritage under one roof. Check out pics.

There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi witnesses this Saturday evening the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum, with the ...

Located near the ancient Pyramids of Giza just outside Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened after two decades ...

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