About 5,400 of Tutankhamun’s well-preserved tomb furnishings are slated to soon go on display when the new Grand Egyptian Museum, near the Pyramids of Giza, opens.

King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with a collection of thousands of priceless artifacts — some of which experts now believe were previously overlooked.

In October 2022, new revelations emerged about the most famous archaeological discovery of the 20th century when American Egyptologist Bob Brier published letters in his book Tutankhamun and the ...

On Nov. 26, 1922, the world of archeology scored the motherlode with the finding of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. Archaeologist Howard Carter beat the odds and discovered the mostly-untou… ...

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 ...

A cracked—but intact—seal, one of many found throughout Tutankhamun's tomb, November 1922. It is the necropolis seal, depicting the jackal god of the underworld, Anubis, watching over nine ...

Tutankhamun's mummy is on display in the Valley of the Kings, but most objects from his tomb are in Cairo Meanwhile, 100 years on, Tutankhamun continues to inspire new waves of scientific discovery.

In perhaps the most famous and enduring archaeological discovery in modern times, the unearthing of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, an otherwise obscure Egyptian pharaoh, in November 1922 captured ...

Tutankhamun's coffins were placed inside numerous gold shrines, on display at COSI in Columbus. After the discovery, it took years to move most of the tomb’s contents to the Egyptian Museum in ...

It was Jan. 3, 1924, over a year after Tutankhamun's tomb was found, that British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators at last found the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.

Nearly the complete contents of his tomb will be on display at the $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum when it finally opens next year. Tutankhamun himself still lies in his tomb outside Luxor.