They are, by the archaeologist’s own admission, one of the more mundane objects pulled from Tutankhamun’s glittering tomb ... rites of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.

Mark Fischer via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried in a tomb filled with treasure. When Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the chamber ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at ... Museum's Egyptian section. "It gives birth to the new kingdom, the famous golden age of many of the well-known pharaohs like King Tut and the ...

Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, reigned from 1336 to 1327 B.C., roughly 3300 years ago. He is known more for the famous discovery of his extravagant tomb than for anything he did. He ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the ... and inspired by the gold headdress of King Tut’s funerary mask, mirrors and inverts ...

The best way to follow up your trip to the pyramids is by visiting the Egyptian Museum. This massive facility contains more than 100,000 artifacts from ancient ... from King Tut's tomb, including ...