In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

CAIROCAIRO — Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club ... according to the most extensive study ever of his more than 3,300-year-old mummy. The findings were from two years ...

KING Tutankhamun’s tomb is on the brink of collapse and could crumble down in a devastating disaster, archaeologists have ...

LUXOR, Egypt — A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb Wednesday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural ...

DIADEM The golden diadem, inlaid with colored glass and semi-precious stones, was still around the head of Tutankhamun when Howard Carter opened the royal coffin more than three thousand two hundred ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter, guided by the flickering light of oil lamps, ventured into the ...

The certified reproduction of the King Tutankhamun's gilded inner coffin from art collector Giovanni Amin's collection is on exhibit in the Louisiana Art & Science Museum's exhibit, 'Discoveries on ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The mummy of King Tutankhamun is to be X-rayed in an attempt to solve the mystery of how the Pharaoh died at age 17, Egypt's chief archaeologist said Sunday. Zahi Hawass said the ...

The man, who would have been alive more than 4,000 years ago, was named Hekashepes, which researchers determined thanks to hieroglyphics. Archaeologists have unearthed a groundbreaking discovery in ...

Was Tutankhamen murdered? On Jan. 5, to solve that mystery and others, scientists CT-scanned the Egyptian king's 3,000-year-old mummy. In 1968, an X-ray of "King Tut" revealed a bone fragment in his ...