The first study took place in 1925, very soon after he was discovered. In their eagerness to see Tutankhamun himself, the anatomists who studied him forcibly removed him from his coffin as he was ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was discovered in a well-hidden tomb that had been preserved for over 3,000 ...

Former Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass said the piece appeared to have been “stolen” in the 1970s from the Karnak Temple complex just north of Luxor. “We think it left Egypt after ...