The Netherlands will return a 3,500-year-old Egyptian sculpture, discovered at a Dutch art fair, to Egypt. Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced the return during his visit to Egypt, where he met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The Grand Egyptian Museum, home to 100,000 ancient artifacts, has opened in Cairo more than 20 years after construction began. The project cost $3 billion and was disrupted by the 2011 revolution and a coup d’etat in 2013. It is part of Egypt’s plan to ...

The exhibit appeared in Houston; San Francisco; Sydney, Paris, and Cologne before arriving in Japan in March. Continued demand has extended its scheduled run at Crevia Base Tokyo, a cavernous theater in front of the famous Toyosu fish market, past Oct. 31 to Jan. 4, 2026.

The seized items include a funerary statue valued at $6 million that likely came from an archaeological site near the ancient city of Memphis.

These talented craftspeople specialized in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, stonemasonry, coffin decorating and other art forms

The Grand Egyptian Museum officially opens on November 1, 2025. Photo: VCG "A gift from Egypt to the world" - the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) officially opened on November 1, with