Four trays and four staff found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings may have been used in an ancient ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sometimes the most powerful commentary on a king is made by those who are silent. One morning in Amarna, a village in ...

A century after the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, some overlooked objects may reveal clues to a forgotten ancient ...

To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again. —ancient Egyptian inscription What's in a name? Well, in the case of Rameses I, no less than immortality—and this for a man of humble ...

In 1922, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, marked one of the most significant finds of ...

Out of all the Egyptian pharaohs whose tombs have been discovered over the years, King Tutankhamun's tomb remains one of the ...

Tutankhamen, often referred to now as King Tut, is the most well-known of Egypt’s pharaohs due to the 20th century discovery of his remarkable tomb. Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more ...