There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

The tomb of Tutankhamun in Luxor is in its most fragile state since its discovery in 1922, with cracks spreading across ceilings, rock layers peeling under humidity, and mural colours fading under the ...

People who know even a bit about Egypt's rich history are well aware of King Tutankhamun's (King Tut) tomb. The lavish tomb took over the world's imagination at the time of its discovery. It now sits ...

When Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, it was considered the most significant archaeological discovery of the 20th century. But archaeologists now warn that the priceless 3,300-year-old tomb ...

The cover of Christina Riggs’s Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive (image courtesy of Bloomsbury Visual Arts) “Tut-mania” seems eternal. At this very moment, ...

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, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh at Luxor, which is built on the ancient city of Thebes — the first such find in the area since King Tutankhamun’s resting place was ...

A century ago this October, Egyptologist Howard Carter and his colleagues opened the innermost coffin of the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus for the first time in almost 3250 years. Inside they ...

Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The tomb, discovered ...

LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - A century after the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, revealing the mummified boy-king buried more than 3,000 years ago, it has re-opened, brighter and safer thanks to ...

From curses to cures — an ancient hex might just be modern science’s secret to battling leukemia. In the 1920s, archaeologists blamed a string of bizarre deaths following the excavation of King ...

A suitcase, believed to have belonged to the explorer who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, was found under a bed and sold at auction for £12,000, ($15,000), skyrocketing over its presale estimate of ...