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Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens
ByPatrick Wintour in Tripoli December 16, 2025

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in…

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Roman-Era Treasures Stolen From Syria’s National Museum
ByEuan Ward November 11, 2025November 11, 2025

The Damascus museum theft set off an official investigation in what may be one of Syria’s largest losses of antiquities in recent years.

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Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’
ByErika Solomon, Rania Khaled and Heba Khamis November 6, 2025

The museum’s most anticipated exhibit is the full 5,500 items from King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Egyptians say it’s time to experience their most precious antiquities at home.

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Egypt’s Grand Museum Is Finally Open. Now, ‘We Need Our Stuff Back.’
ByErika Solomon, Rania Khaled and Heba Khamis November 6, 2025November 7, 2025

The museum’s most anticipated exhibit is the full 5,500 items from King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Egyptians say it’s time to experience their most precious antiquities at home.

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Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build
ByEromo Egbejule and agencies October 31, 2025

Grand Egyptian Museum next to pyramids of Giza billed as world’s largest archaeological facility for single civilisationA vast $1bn museum billed as the world’s largest archaeological facility dedicated to a single civilisation will open outside Cairo …

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Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build
ByEromo Egbejule and agencies October 31, 2025

Grand Egyptian Museum next to pyramids of Giza billed as world’s largest archaeological facility for single civilisationA vast $1bn museum billed as the world’s largest archaeological facility dedicated to a single civilisation will open outside Cairo …

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Inside Iran’s Museum of American Espionage
ByDeclan Walsh, Gelareh Kiazand, Jon Hazell and Christina Thornell October 15, 2025

The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in the June Iran-Israel war has resurfaced that shared …

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Inside Iran’s Museum of American Espionage
ByDeclan Walsh, Gelareh Kiazand, Jon Hazell and Christina Thornell October 15, 2025

The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in the June Iran-Israel war has resurfaced that shared …

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Spies, Burgers and Bombs: After a New War, Old Wounds Resurface in Tehran
ByDeclan Walsh and Nanna Heitmann October 15, 2025October 16, 2025

A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.

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Cats, coffins and sick notes: discovering Egypt’s forgotten workers in broken pottery
ByEsther Addley October 2, 2025

Cambridge exhibition showcases the lives of skilled workers who built some of the most famous sites in ancient EgyptMore than 3,200 years ago at a workshop near Thebes in Egypt, a man called Nakhtamun grabbed a broken piece of pottery and scribbled on …

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