The young pharaoh's tomb, initially discovered by a British archaeologist in 1922, is one of the most well-known in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt A 2025 study explores ways to preserve ...

A new traveling exhibition about the ancient Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun will open to the public in Boston starting this February. The exhibition, titled “Discovering King Tut’s Tomb,” will launch ...

These ancient tombs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt is plagued with cracks, water damage and fungi, sparking fears that “disaster could strike at any moment” for ...

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 ...

Egyptologist Howard Carter first laid eyes on the preserved tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt back in 1922. An exhibit coming to Boston wants to take visitors back to that time in history to see the ...

On a sunny morning, Egyptian workers were clearing the sands at the Valley of the Kings, when they uncovered the hint of stone steps about 13 feet (4 meters) below the tomb of Ramesses VI. This sunken ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

The iconic tomb — located in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt — is one of the most poorly preserved in the area Flash flooding as well as fault lines have contributed to the degradation of ...

When Tut and his wife were both about 11, Ay moved the court back to the administrative capital of Memphis, 15 miles south of today’s Cairo, and likely advised the boy-king to reinstate polytheism.

The tomb of King Tutankhamun — better known as King Tut — is at risk of being destroyed, but one researcher is working to save it. A 2025 study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal NPJ ...