DNA now confirms the mummy to be a son of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye—known to be the parents of Akhenaten—and the father of King Tut. The end of Akhenaten's reign is cloaked in confusion—a ...

and sparked fantastical horror stories of “mummy’s curses.” Fifty full years after King Tut’s tomb was discovered, the fascination was still so strong that comedian Steve Martin was able ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

Tutankhamun's tomb, discovered by archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings on Nov. 4, 1922, was found loaded with treasures. Some of those artifacts, like his death mask, are widely known.

Indeed, Tutankhamun’s mummified remains were themselves symbolic. “The king was being shown as Osiris, more so than was usual in royal burials,” Brown wrote in the paper. “To literally ...

This discovery occurred three years before Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun's tomb. The technique used to wrap the Bashiri mummy has never been seen in any other mummy, according to Youm7.

Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in Egypt's fabled Valley of the Kings? "At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle flame to ...

The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in ... a global passion for ancient Egypt. Tut's glittering treasures made great headlines ...

These reports inspired a Hollywood film, The Mummy in 1932. Image caption, In the U.S the name Tutankhamun was shortened to King Tut and inspired Egyptian-themed music and dances. There were two ...