The famous golden death mask of the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun likely wasn’t made for him, according to a new study. A re-examination of King Tutankhamun’s mask by researchers from the ...

Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter first peered into the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, 100 years ago, the mystery of the boy king's death has captivated historians and ...

And what of Tutankhamun's mother? To our surprise, the DNA of the so-called Younger Lady (KV35YL), found lying beside Tiye in the alcove of KV35, matched that of the boy king. More amazing still ...

One find above all transfixed me: Howard Carter's unearthing of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh known as King Tut. For years after reading C. W. Ceram's book, I dreamed of becoming an ...

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 ...

The boy king was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty and ruled between 1332 BC and 1323 BC. He was the son of Akhenaten and took to the throne at the age of nine or ten. When Tut became king ...

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 ...

Many thought that the 62 tombs discovered before 1922 represented all that would be found in the valley—until Howard Carter discovered the resting place of a boy king called Tutankhamun.

Immersive King Tut opened to the public on Friday, Nov. 4, and after expressing skepticism of digital projections of Van Gogh’s paintings in favor of the original paintings, which are now on ...