On Jan. 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened its doors in Cairo in November, where King Tutankhamun's tomb and all of its contents - ...

Archaeologists have long puzzled over the elegant stone jars buried with Tutankhamun, their inscriptions intact but their ...

The iconic tomb — located in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt — is one of the most poorly preserved in the area Flash flooding as well as fault lines have contributed to the degradation of ...

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 ...

Inside King Tut's subterranean burial chamber, against a backdrop of murals, Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, removes padding to reveal the young pharaoh's remains. Kenneth ...

Photos show vivid colors bringing a mural brought back to life. CAIRO -- A symposium to celebrate the success of a decade-long restoration project on the tomb of King Tutankhamun was held Thursday in ...

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 ...

Egypt’s antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the first such find since King Tutankhamun’s resting place was unearthed in 1922, Egyptian officials announced this week.

Egypt hopes the new museum will draw in five million visitors annually, making one of the most-visited in the world - Copyright AFP/File ROBERTO SCHMIDT Egypt hopes ...