The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Tut's head, scanned in ... Most of the objects were excavated in the Valley of the Kings, two desert canyons on the west bank of the Nile, 416 miles south of Cairo. Covering half a square mile ...

The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on ... Treasures—like the golden masks found with King Tut—are dazzling, but the tombs also contained the ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

Hidden in the desert canyons west of the Nile, the Valley of the Kings holds the tombs of King Tut and his royal relatives. In antiquity this was considered a secluded spot. Today the growing ...

in the Valley of the Kings. Unlike the tombs of other ancient Egyptian pharaohs that have been looted or destroyed by floods, ...

A few years back, when I was working as part of an archaeological mission in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, I unearthed a slab of white limestone covered in ancient paint smears. More of that later ...

Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in Egypt's fabled Valley of the Kings? "At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle flame to ...

Archaeologists have found the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, helping shed more light on ancient Egypt at its peak.

Follow in the footsteps of famed explorers and delve into the mysteries of King Tut’s tomb, now in a dazzling display at ...

The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley ... King Tutankhamun's final resting place was unearthed in 1922. Unlike King ...

As its name suggests, the Valley of the Kings is where dozens of pharaohs were laid to rest. In fact, you'll find 63 royal tombs here, including notable pharaohs like Tutankhamun (or King Tut), Ay ...