The young pharaoh's tomb, initially discovered by a British archaeologist in 1922, is one of the most well-known in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, ...

While excavating in the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptian worker on an archaeological dig discovered a partially obscured step. It would lead into the unlooted tomb of King Tut.

Patricia Clavin, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford, explores the cult of Egyptomania following ...

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris. As its name suggests, this ritual is ...

King Tutankhamun's golden mask displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo in 2009. Legendary pharaoh Tutankhamun was probably killed by the genetic blood disorder sickle cell disease, German scientists ...

June 14, 2005 — -- Since the time his tomb was unearthed in the Valley of the Kings, scientists have wondered why King Tut died at the young age of 19. Was it illness? An accident? Or was it ...

Highlights from this massive archaeological museum include the complete collection of treasures discovered within King Tut’s ...

CAIRO -- Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot. He died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria and his ...

CAIRO: Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King ...

CHICAGO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - King Tutankhamen, the teen-aged pharaoh whose Egyptian tomb yielded dazzling treasures, limped around on tender bones and a club foot and probably died from malaria, ...