The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun's death and burial. Whereas the tombs of most pharaohs were plundered by graverobbers in ancient times, Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and ...

When archaeologists found King Tutankhamun's gold mask in 1922, it was the first time the treasure had been seen in over 3,000 years. Find out how explorers uncovered this ancient Egyptian...

2022年10月17日 · Published for the centenary of its discovery, this book offers an up-to-date survey of the most celebrated tomb ever excavated, revealing new information and debunking the myth of Tutankhamun as a fragile pharaoh.

2022年11月3日 · He became convinced this area would yield the tomb of a little-known king named Tutankhamun, who ruled shortly after Akhenaten and restored Egypt’s traditional order. Tutankhamun was one of...

2022年10月21日 · Howard Carter and a team that included many Egyptian workers discovered it in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, near Thebes, Egypt. Few people believed that it could be found. Here’s how the...

2010年3月4日 · On November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the interior chambers of the tomb, finding them miraculously intact. Thus began a monumental excavation process...

2023年2月15日 · On 26th November 1922, the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, holding a candle in one hand, made a tiny hole in the doorway of a tomb. Taking his first look, he peered through a small crevice, revealing for the first time, the contents of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

2022年11月4日 · The subsequent opening of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s long untouched tomb and its burial chamber—and the dissemination of its treasures through photography, film, and traveling exhibitions—would captivate the world and transform a young Egyptian king whose reign was brief and little remembered into an icon of ancient mysteries.

The tomb of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is located in the Valley of the Kings.The tomb, also known by its tomb number KV62, consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor.It is smaller and less extensively decorated than other Egyptian royal tombs of its time, and it probably originated as a tomb for a non ...

2022年10月18日 · Two mummified fetuses discovered in Tut’s tomb were likely his stillborn daughters. Objects from Tutankhamun’s tomb have led scholars to contradictory conclusions about his short life.