For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

After two decades of anticipation, delays, and global curiosity, Egypt is finally ready to unveil the Grand Egyptian Museum ...

Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, aged eight or nine, and restored the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion Ancient Egypt is most is known for. But, he was dead and buried by the time ...

Tut, who became pharaoh at the age of 10 in 1333 B.C., ruled for just nine years at a pivotal time in Egypt’s history. While a comparatively minor king, the 1922 discovery of his tomb filled with ...

Inside King Tut's subterranean burial chamber, against a backdrop of murals, Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, removes padding to reveal the young pharaoh's remains. Kenneth ...

A disaster could strike at any moment, and if the Valley of the Kings is to be preserved, action must be taken before it is ...

Khaled DESOUKI/AFP/AFP As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the ...

The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered archaeologists since it’s been feared to be linked to the mysterious deaths of multiple excavators who discovered it in 1922.

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the first royal tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun's burial was uncovered more than 100 years ago. The resting place of King Thutmose II, who ruled around 3 ...