Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter first peered into the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, 100 years ago, the mystery of the boy king's death has captivated historians and ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else. The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh in Egypt’s ...

THE hallowed tomb of King Tutankhamun has been restored to its ancient glory after 10 painstaking years. Conservationists have breathed new life into the fabled burial chamber where the young Pharoh’s ...

"Discovering King Tut's Tomb" will arrive in Boston next month.

When Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, he not only found over five thousand artifacts but transformed archaeology into a science of preservation and wonder. In the autumn of 1922, ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the first royal tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun's burial was uncovered more ...

The first royal tomb discovered in over a century is shedding new light on the pharaoh who ruled before Hatshepsut. Reading time 2 minutes A joint Egyptian-British archaeological project near Luxor ...

The young pharaoh's tomb, initially discovered by a British archaeologist in 1922, is one of the most well-known in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt Mostafa Elshemy/Anadolu Agency/Getty A ...

A new traveling exhibition about the ancient Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun will open to the public in Boston starting this February. The exhibition, titled “Discovering King Tut’s Tomb,” will launch ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

From curses to cures — an ancient hex might just be modern science’s secret to battling leukemia. In the 1920s, archaeologists blamed a string of bizarre deaths following the excavation of King ...

Seated on a cushion at the Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s feet, Ankhesenamun hands her young husband an arrow to shoot at ducks in a papyrus thicket. Delicately engraved on a gilt shrine, it’s a scene (above) ...