King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask. That beard may have been an afterthought when ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum has been in the works for over two decades. Construction ground to a halt during the Arab Spring a ...

Tutankhamun: Older? I’ve been king since I was nine you know. Child: Wow! I wasn’t even allowed to walk to school on my own and you’re in charge of a whole country? Tutankhamun: I do have ...

A 3000-year-old stone bust of Tutankhamun. Picture: HO/various sources/AFP Did King Tut really look like this? She’s now ...

A 3000-year-old stone bust of Tutankhamun. Picture: HO/various sources/AFP Did King Tut really look like this? She’s now added her expert eye to those taking a new look at Tut’s mask.

A team from the University of York in the UK say the holes in the ears of the mask suggest the mask was actually intended ... Famed pharaohs like King Tut's great-grandfather, Amenhotep III ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known ... We know what Tutankhamun looked like because scientists have done experiments on his skull, bones and DNA. Tutankhamun was slim, 5’6” tall ...