How Howard Carter's amazing discovery of King Tut's tomb led to tales of a curse and ignited interest in the mummy's ancient mystery.

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else.

1 of 6 | Howard Carter examines the innermost coffin belonging to Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1925. On January 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of King Tut in Egypt, Carter and ...

VISCERA COFFIN Tutankhamun possessed four miniature coffins fashioned of gold and inlaid with colored glass and semi-precious stones, and each stood in a separate compartment in an alabaster chest.

(CAIRO) — Tutankhamun’s golden-plated coffin is undergoing a face-lift for the first time since the boy king’s tomb was discovered in 1922 as Egypt nears completion of the Grand Egyptian ...

Biltmore exhibit of the contents of the tomb of the "boy king" shows they don’t have funerals like King Tut’s these days.

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."I studied archaeology because of Tut ...

After workers raised Tut’s coffins from the tomb’s stone sarcophagus—a complex operation requiring a system of pulleys and slings—Carter gently cleans the lid of the second coffin.

A final mystery emerges from the King’s tomb. When Howard Carter opened the casket of the king, he had the mummified body photographed for posterity. Subsequent photographs and x-rays of the ...

Scientists have finally revealed what the fabled Egyptian King Tutankhamun would have looked like during his reign of power over 3,300 years ago.