As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

Nov. 4, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, and soon the world will be inundated with Tut mania: books, TV programs, museum exhibitions, and even an opera ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

Starting this summer, they’ll be able to see the mask in its new home, the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum located in nearby Giza. Officials will soon transfer the mask to the massive new venue ...

Among the artifacts being saved for the grand opening is the museum's treasure: a collection of 5,000 items from the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, which includes the famous golden mask, sarcophagi ...

Animal mummies, monumental coffins and colossal statues of pharaohs Tutankhamun and Akhenaten will be coming to a local ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's in 1922. Latest U.S.

King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, ... Metropolitan Museum of Art. Brown believes the clay troughs were used in a ritual drink pouring in memory of the dead.

Even with Tutankhamun still under wraps, the museum can now start welcoming some of the 15 million tourists—a needed source of income as well as a source of national pride—who visit Giza each ...

The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th century BC. It is the first major discovery since the tomb of King Tutankhamun was found in 1922 ...

Tutankhamun's mask has been housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo since 1934, 12 years after British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the pharaoh’s tomb. However, the 123-year-old Beaux ...