On January 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of King Tut in Egypt, Carter and his workers found the stone sarcophagus that contained the gold coffin and mummy of the boy king.

King Tut Day celebrates the day that King Tut's tomb was discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter, on November 4, 1922. Carter had first arrived in Egypt in ...

Egypt started the first-ever restoration work on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country’s new museum opening next year, the antiquities minister ...

Photos show experts inspecting the restoration process of King Tutankhamen’s innermost gold coffin in 2019. Inspecting King Tutankhamen’s coffin during its restoration in 2019.

Rediscovering King Tutankhamen’s tomb King Tutankhamen came to the throne at 10 years old and ruled ancient Egypt for nine years, from 1,336 to 1,327 B.C., according to Britannica.

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set to move to the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids.Visitors ...

The right ear of the innermost gold coffin of the Pharaoh. In fact, of the 22 people who had witnessed the opening of the sarcophagus, only two died within the decade. Carter died in 1939, at 64.

King Tut’s tomb is believed to have been built more than 3,000 years ago, according to National Geographic, an educational magazine that focuses on science, exploration and photojournalism. 2.

The king’s mummy still lay inside the innermost coffin. Carter’s fortunes took a sharp turn in 1905, after what he called a “bad affray” with a group of French tourists.

King Tut is the subject of the new pop-up exhibition “Tutankhamen: His Tomb and His Treasures” at Rhode Island Center on Brentwood Road in Northeast D.C. from May 2 to July 31.

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set to move to the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids ...