November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

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

Searching in the desert of Egypt’s Valley of Kings, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team noticed a set of steps hidden underneath debris. Walking down the steps on Nov. 4, 1922, the ...

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

On a sunny morning, Egyptian workers were clearing the sands at the Valley of the Kings, when they uncovered the hint of stone steps about 13 feet (4 meters) below the tomb of Ramesses VI. This sunken ...

LUXOR, Egypt — King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in ...

DIADEM The golden diadem, inlaid with colored glass and semi-precious stones, was still around the head of Tutankhamun when Howard Carter opened the royal coffin more than three thousand two hundred ...

In addition to all of our Thanksgiving adventures this week, historians may note that we are on the anniversary of one of the most spectacular discoveries in modern archeology. It was on Nov. 26 in ...

LUXOR, Egypt -- Somber workers in turbans pulled the mummy of King Tutankhamen out of its tomb in the Valley of the Kings last month and carried it outdoors for the first time in 70 years. Suddenly, ...

The tomb of the boy king Tutankhamen created a sensation from the moment it was uncovered in 1922. One of the few royal burial chambers that survived the centuries relatively intact, it was by far the ...