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Artificial intelligence has been used to generate images showing what ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun may have really ...
A scientific discovery has pointed towards Tutankhamun’s possible cause of death, 100 years after his tomb's discovery.
A few years back, when I was working as part of an archaeological mission in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I unearthed a slab of white limestone covered in ancient paint smears. More of that later ...
The trays and four 3-foot-tall wooden staffs were placed about five feet from the head of King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus. “Originally, these clay troughs were believed to be stands for the ...
The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...
In Egyptian mythology, Osiris is awakened by staffs placed behind his head, suggesting that these staffs may have been part of a ritual intended to "awaken" Tutankhamun, guided by the myths ...
I believe that Tutankhamun is the son of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, but that Akhenaten and Nefertiti were cousins.' But Zahi Hawass, the former head of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...
Out of all the Egyptian pharaohs whose tombs have been discovered over the years, King Tutankhamun's tomb remains one of the most interesting ones ever. A young boy who ruled Egypt for years and was ...
A blockbuster show on King Tutankhamun, the young pharaoh who ruled Ancient Egypt from around 1332-23BC will open at the Hong Kong Palace Museum later this year. The show will bring together ...
Over 100 years ago, in 1922, a British-led research team made a startling discovery. In an Egyptian tomb, they discovered the burial chamber and remains of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and set the world’s ...