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

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 opening of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1923 has been followed by a trail of death and misfortune, with those who disturbed the boy king's resting place said to have been cursed ...

After much debate, the decision has been reached not to move the mummy of the boy king Tutankhamun to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The mummy will remain in the Valley of the Kings on the Nile's west ...

Additional treasures found within the burial chamber are housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

LUXOR, Egypt — A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb Wednesday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter, guided by the flickering light of oil lamps, ventured into the ...

A century ago this October, Egyptologist Howard Carter and his colleagues opened the innermost coffin of the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus for the first time in almost 3250 years. Inside they ...

In 1922, archaeologists uncovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun, exposing thousands of artifacts placed around the young Egyptian king for burial. Among the gold ornaments, chariots and ritual items ...

LUXOR, Egypt — King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in ...