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.

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

When archaeologist Howard Carter and colleagues discovered King Tut's tomb 100 years ago, he reported seeing "wonderful things." Here are 30 lavish findings from the ancient Egyptian burial.

KING Tut’s “cursed” tomb which is filled with ancient treasures has puzzled experts for decades as it could still hold secrets over 100 years after it was discovered. The “B… ...

A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...

King Tut’s infamous tomb likely wasn’t his, new research ... “The penultimate scene was disclosed,” archaeologist Howard Carter wrote in his diary after opening the final layer of the ...

Zahi Hawass, Friday 4 Aug 2023. Despite recent claims to the contrary, there is little evidence that the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti is buried behind the walls of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Indeed, Tutankhamun’s tomb was something of a disappointment in the broader scheme of things. There was lots of nice ‘stuff’, but it didn’t tell us much we didn’t already know.

The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh in Egypt’s 3000-year history. But he’s the most famous because his largely unlooted tomb revealed its wealth of golden artworks ...

He was a boy king who only reigned for nine years. But a full three millennia on from the death of Tutankhamun, new theories and evidence suggest that his burial tomb maybe hasn’t yet given up ...