Was the 3,300-year-old burial complex actually built for a queen? An archaeologist — and now Egyptian officials — think it might have been.

He was called the “boy king” because he died around age 19 after nine years on the throne. Reeves and others speculate Tut shared Nefertiti’s tomb because of a lack of alternatives.

The burial chamber of King Tut has revealed many secrets over the years, but there may be a whopper yet to discover: the tomb of his mother, Queen Nefertiti. A scan of the wall texture in 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.

A new radar survey of King Tutankhamun’s tomb has reportedly found evidence of a hidden chamber that has revived talk about Queen Nefertiti’s final resting place.

Radar scans of King Tut’s tomb have revealed two hidden rooms behind a burial chamber that experts believe may contain the long-lost remains of Queen Nefertiti, Egyptian officials said Thursday ...

It’s possible, Reeves argued, that Nefertiti’s mask had been reused due to the urgency surrounding King Tut’s burial. Given that the young pharaoh ascended to the throne at just nine years ...

Scans of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber show hidden rooms that could contain metal and organic material, Egypt’s antiquities minister said Thursday, intensifying speculation that the ...

Nefertiti illustration.jpgReeves suspects Nefertiti's 3,355-year-old resting place may lie behind her son King Tutankhamun's tomb. He bases his suspicions on a high-tech scan of the inside of Tut ...

The burial chamber of King Tut has revealed many secrets over the years, but there may be a whopper yet to discover: the tomb of his mother.

The tomb of the fabled Tutankhamun, dug into a crumbling pyramid in Egypt’s vast, sun-baked Valley of Kings, has long been shrouded in superstition and rumor. There’s the mystery of the… ...

A controversial new theory holds that King Tutankhamun's tomb hides the grave of his mother, Queen Nefertiti.