Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

Researchers say the mask's pierced ears and mismatched gold suggest it was originally made for a female ruler, possibly ...

The tomb of King Tutankhamen, the ancient Egyptian boy king, was discovered 100 years ago. AP Searching in the desert of Egypt’s Valley of Kings, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team ...

Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, aged eight or nine, and restored the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else. The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh in Egypt’s ...

Over 100 years ago, in 1922, a British-led research team made a startling discovery. In an Egyptian tomb, they discovered the burial chamber and remains of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and set the world’s ...

The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered archaeologists since it’s been feared to be linked to the mysterious deaths of multiple excavators who discovered it in 1922.