As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

King Tutankhamun's legacy continues to fascinate, nearly a century after his tomb's discovery. Recent research unveils that one of his daggers was crafted from meteoric iron, a "space dagger." ...

King Tut’s golden mask is one of the most famous treasures in the world, but it turns out it was hiding a secret all along! Experts recently discovered that the mask wasn’t originally made for ...

If the new investigations into King Tut's tomb reveal hidden rooms, could those chambers hold the burial of Nefertiti, the long-lost queen who is doubly connected to the teenage pharaoh? If so ...

For more than a century, Egyptologists have debated King Tut's cause of death. But a DNA analysis has brought them closer to understanding what killed the boy king.

With the mystery surrounding where his famous stepmother, Queen Nefertiti, is buried, experts surmise King Tut’s mask could have been used by her first.

To call King Tut’s genealogy complicated might be one of the biggest understatements in Egyptology. For example, Queen Nefertiti, once thought to be Tutankhamun’s birth mother, was actually his ...

They contend that Nefertiti was also Egypt’s leading lady, a powerful figure who took over after her husband’s death. Nefertiti ruled during the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt between 1353 to 1336 B.C.

“The king is labeled Ankh-kheperura Smenkhkara and the queen as Meretaten, Akhenaten’s eldest daughter [by Nefertiti],” Kemp explains, “I find it perverse to argue that the former is ...

Maybe the walls are disguising the undiscovered burial chamber of Nefertiti. Or “maybe it’s Al Capone’s safe.” By Franz Lidz More than three millenniums after Tutankhamun was buried in ...

Hieroglyphics hidden in the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen have strengthened the belief that the tomb could contain a door to the tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, according to a world ...