Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit photos. The boy king, Tutankhamun, remains one of history’s most magnetic figures because his story refuses ...

A century ago, the mummified body of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was unwrapped for the first time - having been entombed thousands of years before. To mark the hundred-year anniversary, a ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the Egyptian conservator ...

For nearly a century, visitors have flocked to the Egyptian Museum on Cairo’s Tahrir Square to admire Tutankhamun’s funerary mask, the intricately decorated artifact designed to cover the mummified ...

On February 16, 1923, one of the most significant moments in archaeological history unfolded in Thebes, Egypt, as the English archaeologist Howard Carter breached the sealed burial chamber of King ...

In 1922 archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. Learn about the treasures within the tomb of the pharaoh, from objects of beauty to practical items that were provided for the ...