Hidden doorways in an ancient Egyptian tomb may lead to the long-lost resting place of Queen Nefertiti.

The death of a healthy and active retired nurse who ended her life at aSwiss suicide clinic to avoid deteriorating in old age is a “deeply troubling” case that sends a “chilling message” about society’s views of elderly people, a campaign group said.

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The Government has made a law to ‘steal’ money from people’s pensions and social welfare benefits.

Kya deLongchamps explores a curious moment in the afterlife of King Tutankhamun.

Barbara Scully was 10 when her mother dragged her to Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a show that started a hilarious musical journey for the duo. Forty years later, they returned with Barbara’s teenage daughters

 

The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on, damaging the relic after it was knocked during cleaning.

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This production of the world’s longest running musical is a slick crowd pleaser and very much a show for all the family.

EGYPT’S brief flirtation with democracy came to a tearful end. Regimes pay lip service to ‘the will of the people’, but it’s a principle ‘more honoured in the breach than in the observance’.

Jay-Z collaborates with Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and Pharrell Williams on one track.

HALF of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland have said.

“HOW do you explain this frivolous spending during a recession?” demands one of the characters of our eponymous hero early in Arthur (12A), in a bid to deflect audience resentment at the sight of Russell Brand playing a playboy billionaire who wastes thousands of dollars at every hand’s turn.

She makes Indiana Jones look like a lazy wimp, so hats off to the wonderful Adele and her extraordinary adventures … of which there are a lot, and while we’re mentioning hats there are a lot of them too, all gloriously flambouyant.

A small limestone statue of the father of King Tutankhamun that went missing from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum during recent turmoil has been found.

Celebrations have erupted across the Middle East after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s president.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS found what may be a trove of 3,400-year-old statues on the west bank of the ancient temple city, Luxor, said the head of Egypt’s antiquities department yesterday.

EGYPT’S antiquities department says archaeologists have unearthed 12 more sphinx statues along the ancient avenue connecting Luxor and Karnak temples.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will return 19 artefacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egypt’s antiquities authority and the museum said today.

Ralph Beckett bemoaned the lack of prize money on offer at Lingfield this afternoon but his promising winner Days Of Summer will surely have the opportunity to pick up greater riches.

Egyptian archaeologists who have completed excavations of an unfinished ancient tunnel believe it was meant to connect a 3,300-year-old pharaoh's tomb with a secret burial site, officials said today.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the massive head of one Egypt’s most famous pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced.

EGYPT’S famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, may have walked with a cane and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

Egypt’s antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation’s lost treasures to a new level today by cutting ties with one of the world’s premier museums, the Louvre, over disputed artefacts.

Hollywood just can’t let sleeping dogs lie, the suits simply must squeeze every last drop from an idea. Thus we have the second of what threatens to be an endless series of films in which museum exhibits come to life.

Richard Collins reports on the third Sack of Rome by noble winged knights.

The Russian parliament today tentatively backed constitutional changes that would extend the presidential term from four to six years.

Richard Collins on the translator whose persistence solved a mystery.

Two mummified foetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun are to be DNA tested to determine their link to the young pharaoh, Egypt announced today.

Richard Collins finds out that humans aren’t the only animals to ‘pig out’.

HARDERWIJK is on the edge of the Veluwemeer, the long neck of the Zuiderzee, at the dead centre of the Netherlands.

Egyptian antiquities experts are poised to announce what is billed as the top archaeological discovery since the 1922 find of Tutankhamun’s tomb – that a mummy housed in the Cairo Museum is actually that of Queen Hatshepsut.

“And Moses stretched his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the waters to go back by a strong east wind ... and made the sea dry land.”

ONLY one of the seven wonders of the ancient world survives. The pyramids of Giza, just outside Cairo, have been standing for 4,600 years.

A MASSIVE statue of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, rolled through the streets of Cairo to a new home near the Pyramids yesterday to escape the corrosive pollution of its former spot in a crowded transit hub.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of Stone Age houses going back 7,000 years on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

For centuries her beauty has been legendary – now experts believe they have recreated the face of the enigmatic Queen Nefertiti.

Three Italian schoolgirls have been taken to hospital after falling under the supposed curse of an Egyptian pharaoh.