The cartouche encircling the king's name ... third and final coffin (245 pounds of solid gold) inside the sarcophagus and gazed at the gold and lapis lazuli mask atop Tut’s mummy.

As archaeologists entered the tomb, they discovered a coffin ... King Tut, King Akhenaten, and his father, King Amenhotep III. Further DNA testing in 2015 examined ten royal mummies, including the ...

By carrying out CT scans of King Tutankhamun's ... could testify whether the KV55 mummy was indeed her son. The innermost coffin of a miniature nested set from Tut’s tomb was inscribed with ...

The results suggested that King Tut was the son of the anonymous mummy in tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings. His mother, also anonymous, was possibly buried in tomb KV35. 'Unfortunately as ...

Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of ...

The discovery of wooden staffs and clay trays near the sarcophagus of King Tut might be the oldest known ... However, the staffs at the head of Tutankhamen’s mummy—along with trays that ...

like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut’s tomb in 1922. But Psousennes himself ...

King Tut’s skeleton has been dismantled and ... a solid gold death mask and coffin holding his mummy. Image caption, The discovery made headlines around the world. The Times published the ...