In King Tut’s burial chamber, a rite known as the “Awakening of Osiris” may have been performed, according to evidence […] ...

But to tell you the truth, if I had the power, I would close such things as the Pyramids and the tombs of Seti, Nefertari, and King Tut at Luxor. These are things we cannot repeat; we should close ...

This discovery occurred three years before Carter uncovered King ... of bandages over the mummy's face resembles the ...

Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza ... Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, reigned from 1336 to 1327 B.C., roughly 3300 years ago. He is known more for the famous discovery ...

The construction of these pyramids helped pharaohs' souls reach the heavens and facilitated the king's passage to the afterlife. Over the centuries, the white limestone coating of the pyramids ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut’s tomb in 1922. But Psousennes himself ...

DNA now confirms the mummy to be a son of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye—known to be the parents of Akhenaten—and the father of King Tut. The end of Akhenaten's reign is cloaked in confusion—a ...

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

Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in Egypt's fabled Valley of the Kings? "At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle flame to ...

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.