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 ...

Learn all about King Tut and other famous mummies of ancient Egypt. Who was King Tut and how was he discovered relatively "recently"? Who were Ramses II and Hatshepsut? Why was the afterlife so ...

Was Tutankhamen murdered? On Jan. 5, to solve that mystery and others, scientists CT-scanned the Egyptian king's 3,000-year-old mummy. In 1968, an X-ray of "King Tut" revealed a bone fragment in his ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter, guided by the flickering light of oil lamps, ventured into the ...

NEW YORK CITY -- History buffs will be able to get their love of Egyptian pharaohs with the all-new, immersive King Tut exhibit in New York City. Step into a tent and you can experience ancient Egypt ...

Let’s hear it for ambitious kids! A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling.

Mummies are known for being surprisingly well preserved despite their age, and that's due to ancient peoples' impressive ...

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, ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- 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 ...

CAIRO(Reuters) - High-resolution scans suggest the tomb of Ancient Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun contains passages to two hidden chambers, including what one British archaeologist believes is the last ...