FatherAkhenaten KV55The identity of King Tut’s father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.

Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent ... significant looting in the Valley of the Kings. Tut’s tomb may even contain further secrets—during the ...

Scans of King Tut's burial chamber have revealed two hidden ... which lay behind walls that were covered up and painted over with hieroglyphics. Nefertiti was the primary wife of the Pharaoh ...

that of King Tut. When the tomb—which was initially simply called No. C4—was first discovered, “the team believed it could belong to one of the wives of the kings,” according to Mohamed ...

Fifty full years after King Tut’s tomb was discovered, the fascination was still so strong that comedian Steve Martin was able to perform a satirical song about the obsession on the third season ...

Tutankhamun's tomb, discovered by archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings on Nov. 4, 1922, was found loaded with treasures. Some of those artifacts, like his death mask, are widely known.

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be home to more than 100,000 artefacts, including King Tut's "cursed" iconic gold mask and sarcophagus. The museum covers an impressive 500,000 square feet ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known, was the last of his dynasty of pharaohs. He ruled as a boy only for a short time. He is most famous because his tomb was discovered almost intact and ...

Archaeologists have found a pharaoh’s tomb near Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the country’s ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed King Thutmose II’s tomb — the most significant Egyptian discovery since King Tut’s resting place was found in 1922. A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists located ...