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More than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists labored quietly for over a decade to restore thousands of artefacts for the ...
As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...
When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...
A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...
The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...
A deadly fungus once feared as a cursed relic from King Tut’s tomb may now hold the secret weapon against cancer.
From gilded coffins to golden amulets, many of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s items have not undergone restoration since their 1922 discovery.
A mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...
Analysis - In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun ...
As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...