… 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.

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.

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.

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.

1. When Howard Carter uncovered Tutankamun in 1922, he discovered that the resins used in the burial ceremony had hardened, cementing the mummy to the floor of his solid gold, inner coffin.

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.

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.

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.

The show, "Discoveries on the Nile: Exploring King Tut’s Tomb and the Amin Egyptian Collection," runs at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum through Sept. 1, 2025.

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 ...

Huts of craftsmen working on the tomb of King Ramses VI nearly 200 years after Tut’s death were built over the stairway leading down to Tutankhamun’s nearby, far smaller tomb.