Analysis - More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations ...

The BBC aired a documentary called Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered in 2014, which presented results from genetic analysis of ...

The first act of the drama begins in about 1390 B.C., several decades before Tutankhamun's birth, when the great pharaoh Amenhotep III assumes the throne of Egypt. Controlling an empire stretching ...

His enduring legacy owes much to the spectacular discovery of his tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, which ...

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris. As its name suggests, this ritual is ...

Salah, a boy, wanders about with his uncle through the Cairo museum, where he is fascinated by the statues and especially the restauration work in progress on Tutankhamun's throne. His uncle tells ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the burial are still emerging. A recent article published in the Journal of ...

Tutankhamun—more commonly known today as King Tut—ascended the throne at nine years old, ruled until his death (the cause of which is still being debated) at eighteen, and was the last pharaoh of the ...