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, ...

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

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet ...

Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient ...

An ancient necklace discovered with the face of King Tutankhamun on it could have revealed hidden rebirth rituals and ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was discovered in a well-hidden tomb that had been preserved for over 3,000 years, ...

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures -- over 4,500 artefacts -- was displayed together for the ...

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 golden boy of history wasn’t as pretty as you may think: Behind Tutankhamun’s elaborate death mask was a sick, crippled and deformed product of incest. New 3D modelling of his mummified body shows ...

Inside a pristine glass box at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, King Tutankhamun’s golden mask sits motionless as a sea of ...