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 ...

Tut artifacts toured the U.S. in 1976.Zahi Hawass, center, checks the Tut mummy inside the ancient ruler's tomb in the Valley of the Kings last month in advance of a scanning machine's examination.

… AND GIVES UP ITS SECRETS When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus.

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 ...

Egypt’s antiquities chief supervises the 2007 removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamun from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.

When archaeologist Howard Carter and colleagues discovered King Tut's tomb 100 years ago, he reported seeing "wonderful things." Here are 30 lavish findings from the ancient Egyptian burial.

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 coffin texts were used to gain entry into the afterlife. AP The Coffin Texts: Included in Tut’s tomb was the Book of the Dead, including the “Negative Confession” from Chapter 125.

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.

Inside King Tut's subterranean burial chamber, against a backdrop of murals, Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, removes padding to reveal the young pharaoh's remains.

(Meet King Tut’s father, Egypt’s first revolutionary.) According to the results of DNA tests published in 2010, a decayed mummy found in tomb KV55 was Tut’s father.