Tutankhamun 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 he became king ...

Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of ...

It is the first major archaeological discovery related to the dynasty in over 100 years, with the tomb of King Tutankhamun found in 1922. A joint team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made ...

In 1922, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the ... are placed at the corners of the sarcophagus to guide the king through the underworld, and then the torches are extinguished ...

After piecing together some other clues, it became clear that King Tut’s tomb had not been left ... with any valuable items ...