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He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...
Howard Carter, the Egyptologist who discovered King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, also discovered this armor in a box within the tomb. Recently a scientist re-examined this armor ...
When King Tutankhamun contracted malaria over 3,300 years ago, there was no known cure. The reality is that it's probably more complicated, with a number of factors contributing.
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 ...
Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun’s golden sarcophagus is displayed at his tomb in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. AP. It’s 53.5cm tall and made from 10kg of solid gold inlaid ...
Huts of craftsmen working on the tomb of King Ramses VI nearly 200 years after Tut’s death were built over the stairway leading down to Tutankhamun’s nearby, far smaller tomb. Limestone chips ...
Egyptologists studying King Tutankhamun are piecing together what he may have looked like based on the remains of his mummy, personal artifacts, pharaoh portraits and figurines of his likeness.
King Tutankhamun and the Mummy's Curse That Killed Nine Explorers. Published Nov 01, 2022 at 11:57 AM EDT. By . Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK.
In “Tutankhamun: Allies & Enemies,” a two-part exploration of its own, one prominent Egyptologist interviewed says that Carter’s find was all about “luck”—never mind the single-minded ...
Records indicate that Tutankhamun was born in 1341 B.C. and died at the age of 18 or 19 in 1323 B.C. after having reigned as the Egyptian pharaoh for roughly nine years, according to the British ...
King Tutankhamun’s tomb hid a 3,000-year-old secret ritual, scientists reveal By . Adriana Diaz. Published March 24, 2025, 9:34 a.m. ET.