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

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

The mud trays are now thought to be part of a wider funerary ritual, which both invoked the god Osiris and permitted the transfiguration of Tutankhamun. As king, he was thought to be the ...

At the time, scholars didn’t know much about King Tutankhamun (King Tut), the boy king who ruled for about a decade. King Tut wasn’t a pharaoh that many historians considered important. But his death ...

A number of Neferneferuaten’s funerary goods were discovered to have been similarly adopted for Tutankhamun's use, suggesting that she was never buried with them.

Upgrading from these finds, it could be that these rooms contain more of Tutankhamun’s funerary goods. It has been suggested that it contains the burial of another royal member of the family.

After Akhenaten’s death, the young Tutankhamun became king. ... Carter’s glimpse of Tutankhamun’s grave goods that day was a rare reward in a life marked by setbacks and financial difficulties.

To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask ...

The toxic fungus behind the “curse” of Tutankhamun’s tomb can fight cancer, scientists have found. Aspergillus flavus, a ...

Howard Carter’s team found Tutankhamun’s tomb filled with Ancient Egyptian luxury goods, deposited in the tomb for the Boy King to make use of in the afterlife.