Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

Four trays and four staff found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings may have been used in an ancient ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mummies capture our imaginations and our hearts. Full of secrets and magic, they were once people who lived and ...

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 ...

If you can’t make it to Egypt, head to Washington, D.C., where “Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures” puts visitors inside the artifact-stuffed rooms of King Tut’s tomb. It’s been a ...

Ancient Egypt is famous for its pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs. At times throughout its thousands of years of history, ancient Egypt was an empire that controlled vast areas of northeast Africa ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent. One morning in Amarna, a village in ...

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.

They are, by the archaeologist’s own admission, one of the more mundane objects pulled from Tutankhamun’s glittering tomb. Call them what you like—mud trays, clay troughs, unbaked earthen ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

Lighthouse Immersive is at it again with an Immersive King Tut exhibit that’s headed for Detroit this November. They’re the same folks behind the Immersive Van Gogh projection mapping show ...