While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, which is the largest archeological museum in the world, will display King Tut's complete tomb to ...

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 ...

More than a century after King Tutankhamun's tomb was first discovered, all of the treasures that were found inside are being ...

As if we weren’t excited enough for the long-delayed full unveiling of Giza’s Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in July, the institution has just announced that it has received another 163 artifacts from ...

He became Pharaoh of Egypt in 1332 B.C. at the young age of nine before dying at age 18. Now, King Tut is the subject of the new pop-up exhibition “Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures” at Rhode ...

When British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922, he proclaimed the “wonderful things” he could see. And in an instant, the boy king—with his golden cavern, ...

These ancient tombs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt is plagued with cracks, water damage and fungi, sparking fears that “disaster could strike at any moment” for ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was discovered in a well-hidden tomb that had been preserved for over 3,000 years, ...

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris. As its name suggests, this ritual is ...

The science writer Sam Kean’s all-in approach to research is evident not only from the ink on the pages of his books but from the ink on his skin. In “Dinner With King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists ...