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Buried beside the Great Pyramid 4,500 years ago, rediscovered in 1954 and now on show at the Grand Egyptian Museum: the remarkable story of Khufu’s cedarwood boats.Read More

Forget gold for a moment. These five artefacts – from tiny wooden bakeries to a register of workers’ absences – show how ordinary Egyptians worked, ate, learned and relaxed.Read More

Sound signs, word signs and silent classifiers: a clear beginner’s guide to how Egyptian hieroglyphs work, how to read a cartouche and how the script was deciphered.Read More

More than gold: what Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 – and a century of research since – has revealed about the boy king, his family and the world he lived in.Read More

The colossal Ramesses II, the Grand Staircase, the complete treasures of Tutankhamun and Khufu’s 4,500-year-old boat: how to make the most of a visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum.Read More