This discovery occurred three years before Carter uncovered King ... of bandages over the mummy's face resembles the architectural design of the Egyptian pyramids, noted the Daily Mail.

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 ...

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 ...

The results suggested that King Tut was the son of the anonymous mummy in tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings. His mother, also anonymous, was possibly buried in tomb KV35. 'Unfortunately as ...

His enduring legacy owes much to the spectacular discovery of his tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, which revealed more than 5,000 artifacts—including his iconic gold mask—almost ...

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 ...

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known ... However, the staffs at the head of Tutankhamen’s mummy—along with trays that ...

Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent ... he was also looking back to the distant past. He studied the pyramids of kings who had lived more than a ...

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 ...

These reports inspired a Hollywood film, The Mummy in 1932. Image caption, In the U.S the name Tutankhamun was shortened to King Tut and inspired Egyptian-themed music and dances. There were two ...

The four troughs and four staffs encircled Tutankhamun’s mummy, maybe meant to represent cardinal directions and “symbolically surround the deceased for protection,” Brown tells Live Science.