Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English archaeologist Howard Carter near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of Kings, Egypt. Photo acquired on ...

Among the most striking discoveries is the mummy of a man found inside a sarcophagus, described as being "completely covered in layers of gold".

The tomb of King Tutankhamun — better known as King Tut — is at risk of being destroyed, but one researcher is working to save it. A 2025 study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal NPJ ...

Many of the most monumental events that humans have ever experienced start with the simple act of one sound being made. In ...

Ancient Egyptian paintings are visible on the newly restored tomb wall, inside the recently restored ancient "Samut" (TT417) in the El-Khokha necropolis on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor Ancient ...

DALLAS - An exhibit showcasing items buried in the Egyptian tomb of King Tut is back in the United States. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opened over the weekend at the Dallas Museum ...

Egypt hopes the new museum will draw in five million visitors annually, making one of the most-visited in the world - Copyright AFP/File ROBERTO SCHMIDT Egypt hopes ...

Perhaps the most well-known mummy is that of King Tutankhamun, the teenage Egyptian pharaoh who was entombed some 3,300 years ago amid his piles of treasure. There's also Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

The unearthing of an ancient Egyptian mummy has revealed a terrifying bubonic plague that wreaked havoc on humanity before the infamous Black Death swept across Europe. This oldest confirmed case of ...

Egypt hopes the new museum will draw in five million visitors annually, making one of the most-visited in the world — Khaled DESOUKI Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on ...