Experts warn structural damage, water infiltration and fungi are accelerating the deterioration of the 3,300-year-old burial ...

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

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 ...

The fortress was erected during the New Kingdom, which spanned from 1550 to 1070 B.C., making it at least 3,000 years old.

Researchers say the mask's pierced ears and mismatched gold suggest it was originally made for a female ruler, possibly ...

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 ...

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.