In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: "Yes, wonderful things." Within ...

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 was one of the biggest of the 20th century but the man behind the find chose to ...

A toxic fungus determined to be behind the "curse" of Tutankhamun’s tomb can help fight cancer, scientists believe. The ...

The first glimpse of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt, circa 1922. The sight that met the eyes of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter when they broke down the sealed doorway which divided the ante ...

A nine-year conservation project on King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has just finished, and some intriguing discoveries were made along the way.

When Howard Carter unsealed the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 it proved to be one of history’s greatest discoveries. For a hundred years no other such Egyptian Pharaoh tomb had been found ...

“It was like [archaeologist] Howard Carter walking into Tutankhamun’s tomb,” says art historian and Lindsay expert Robert ...

Tutankhamun's tomb is in the Valley of the Kings just northwest of the modern Egyptian city of Luxor, itself built on the ruins of the city of Thebes on the Nile River.

An English archaeologist has suggested that the tomb of Tutankhamun, the most famous of Egypt's pharaohs, is hiding a secret that has eluded researchers since its discovery more than 90 years ago ...

However, when Tutankhamun died suddenly at the age of 19 in 1323, Reeves theorises, Nefertiti's body was set aside in a chamber that was plastered over and hidden, and the tomb given over to the ...

King Tutankhamun's mummified remains were found 100 years ago inside three gilded coffins, replicas of which are part of a new exhibit, “Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures,” at COSI in ...

In “Tutankhamun: Allies & Enemies,” a two-part exploration of its own, one prominent Egyptologist interviewed says that Carter’s find was all about “luck”—never mind the single-minded ...