The battered and sand-scraped 1920s leather case has the distinctive initials of Howard Carter on its lid. When he finished in the desert in 1939, he gave it to a lad from Bishop who had become an ...

Of course inside that coffin is the young pharaoh’s body. Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden for many centuries. It was covered in debris from other tombs and then hidden by workers' houses.

In December 1795, ploughman John Shipley was working in a field in the Yorkshire village of Wold Newton when he heard a ...

Explore key historical events from Sunday, Feb. 16, to Saturday, Feb.22, including King Tut's tomb unsealing, Fidel Castro's ...

A suitcase used by the explorer who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt has been discovered in Bishop Auckland.

An immersive “Tutankhamun experience” combining ancient ... movie that tells the story of the famous boy pharaoh, whose tomb was discovered by British archeologist Howard Carter in the Valley ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ancient royal tombs.

A bottle of Egyptian blue hand mixed by George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was loaned by the Iowa State archives.

Archaeologists have made a major find which “reconstructs history” in the region of Egypt where Tutankhamun was found ... adults and one for a child - inside rocky tombs and burial shafts ...

It comes just days after the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage, a foundation established by Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, came across a 3,600 year old hidden burial shafts and ...