November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter, guided by the flickering light of oil lamps, ventured into the ...

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

Jan. 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1777, the Continental Army commanded by Gen. George Washington defeated the British at Princeton, N.J. In 1870, construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, designed ...

(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 Museum, a ...

THE world’s biggest museum has finally opened to the public – with the incredible gallery boasting rooms of ancient gold and a “cursed” coffin. The Grand Egyptian Museum – home to more than 100,000 ...

Egypt started the first-ever restoration work on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country's new museum opening next year, the antiquities minister said ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a boy pharaoh excavated from the darkness 3,300 years ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — I just toured the King Tut exhibit at Biltmore Estate and came away with renewed respect for short funerals and soft pillows. Serious students of archaeology, amateur and ...

In addition to all of our Thanksgiving adventures this week, historians may note that we are on the anniversary of one of the most spectacular discoveries in modern archeology. It was on Nov. 26 in ...