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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
11/11/2022 6:23:31 PM
Norwegian police said two climate activists tried in vain Friday to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” at an Oslo museum and no harm was reported to the painting of a waif-like figure appearing to scream.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
11/11/2022 2:06:00 PM
Zahi Hawass reconstructs the background to the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun that took place 100 years ago this month.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
11/5/2022 6:21:40 PM
Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya at the Prado museum in Madrid, police said.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
10/31/2022 7:41:33 PM
A young woman tried to throw soup at a painting at the world-famous Musee d'Orsay in Paris this week, the museum confirmed Sunday, in a similar attack to others by climate activists in Europe.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/27/2022 5:52:31 PM
Dutch police arrested three people after climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/25/2022 7:22:00 PM
The Rosetta Stone, the basis for our understanding of ancient Egypt, is an important part of Egyptian identity and must be returned to Egypt, writes Zahi Hawass
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
10/25/2022 5:19:57 PM
To promote Egypt as a diverse tourist destination and enable COP27’s participants and guests to explore Sharm El-Sheikh’s diverse tourist attractions, the Sharm El-Sheikh Museum Will extend its visiting hours.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/24/2022 8:03:35 PM
Three university students and a father of one of them have been arrested for stealing 59 artefacts from a museum affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology at Sohag University in Upper Egypt, the Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/23/2022 7:50:53 PM
Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction on Sunday, and it was unclear whether the demonstration caused long-term damage to the artwork.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/19/2022 8:02:34 PM
Renowned Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass published on Wednesday on his website and Instagram account an international petition on Change.org calling for the return of the two iconic ancient Egyptian artefacts the Rosetta Stone, from the British Museum in London, and the Dendera Zodiac, from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
10/17/2022 12:05:18 PM
The Arab Hall reopened after an $8.9 million restoration of the Victorian era's Leighton House museum in London.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/13/2022 3:44:21 PM
To enhance visitors’ experience during their tour in museums and archaeological sites all over Egypt, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has provided solar energy-operated carts for on-site transportation in Luxor’s archaeological sites.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
10/12/2022 10:51:31 AM
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Antiquities
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Museums
10/12/2022 10:34:59 AM
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Sports
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World
10/4/2022 9:01:35 PM
Qatar unveiled Tuesday its landmark Museum of Islamic Art after an 18-month renovation ahead of the World Cup in a bid to be a "showcase" for the Arab world.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/30/2022 3:06:44 PM
Egypt has successfully recovered an ancient wooden coffin cover from a Houston museum in the US.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
9/29/2022 11:14:00 AM
Zahi Hawass continues his description of the dramatic events at the Egyptian Museum in January 2011.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
9/25/2022 2:19:09 PM
The exhibition titled “Mexico and Egypt from Above, a Unique Perspective” opened at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) Saturday and will continue through Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
9/23/2022 5:47:00 PM
Zahi Hawass describes the dramatic events of 28 January 2011 and the attack on the Egyptian Museum.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
9/20/2022 7:11:11 PM
In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil.
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