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

More than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists labored quietly for over a decade to restore thousands of artefacts for the ...

A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...

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 mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...

A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania transforming Aspergillus flavus, a toxic fungus historically ...

Analysis - In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun ...

From gilded coffins to golden amulets, many of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s items have not undergone restoration since their 1922 discovery.

An archaeologist performs restorations on the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the restoration lab of the Grand Egyptian ...

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