By far the most wonderful of ancient articles to be taken from the Tomb of Tutankhamun are the three great couches, decorated in rich trimmings of gold and silver with fantastic figures of animals ...

It would take the excavators ten years to clear the tomb of its treasure. The unsealing and studying of the tomb is also credited with launching the modern era of Egyptology. Tutankhamun took the ...

A wooden bed from the tomb is photographed in ... For more about the history of the Tutankhamun excavation, including low-resolution scans of photographs taken at the time, visit the website ...

But the most recent CT scans show this is not true. Packing out the face would have taken time and skill. It is hard to escape the mental image of Tutankhamun lying in his tomb in splendid isolation.

The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922—contained a “wonderful” cache of objects linked to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Eli Wizevich History Correspondent Tutankhamun's tomb wasn ...

Tutankhamun's tomb, discovered by archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings on Nov. 4, 1922, was found loaded with treasures. Some of those artifacts, like his death mask, are widely known.

The long-held belief that Tutankhamun died suddenly and had to be buried in a hurry has informed most of the ideas around his tomb and equipment. It’s also been taken to explain why so much ...

A nine-year project has been completed to restore the tomb of ancient Egypt's boy king, Tutankhamun, and address issues that threatened its survival. Experts from the Getty Conservation Institute ...

The long-held belief that Tutankhamun died suddenly and had to be buried in a hurry has informed most of the ideas around his tomb and equipment. It's also been taken to explain why so much ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known, was the last of his dynasty of pharaohs. He ruled as a boy only for a short time. He is most famous because his tomb was discovered almost intact and ...