but when his tomb was discovered in 1922 it ignited mysteries that still prevail to this day. Born around 1341 BC, Tutankhamun, as we know him today, was originally called Tutankhaten. This was in ...

As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...

New archaeological findings challenge the long-standing theory of a plague causing the abandonment of Akhetaten, Egypt's ...

The plague of Akhetaten has long been cited as a possible explanation for the mysterious abandonment of ancient Egypt's short-lived capital city. However, a comprehensive new archaeological analysis ...

Renowned Egyptologist Professor Joanne Fletcher explores the life of the most famous pharaoh - Tutankhamun. Jo has curated a very special exhibition in her hometown, Barnsley, not only to celebrate ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the entire world was eagerly anticipating—the opening of King Tut's burial chamber.

Egypt on Saturday opened a tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum ...

What cutting-edge technology has revealed in the 800-year-old search for the Mongol ruler's lost tomb. The "Yuan Emperor Album" includes a portrait of Genghis Khan, an iconic figure in Mongolian ...

A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the latest artefact to disappear in mysterious circumstances. The limestone relief appeared to have been cut out ...

Cairo — A rare 4,000-year-old limestone relief has vanished from a tomb in Egypt's famous Saqqara Necropolis, officials say, in the second major apparent theft of an antiquity in just weeks. The ...

Police officers work at Bagneux cemetery after the grave of former French justice minister Robert Badinter was vandalized on the day of his induction into the Pantheon, in Bagneux, near Paris, France, ...