King Tutankhamun (also spelled Tutankhamen), often dubbed the boy king, was an Egyptian pharaoh who rose to power in 1333 B.C., at the tender age of 10. His mother was Queen Nefertiti, and his ...

Dr. Nicholas Reeves, an English archaeologist at the University of Arizona may have made the greatest archeological discovery since the unearthing of King Tut's tomb in 1922. Maybe. According to a ...

DNA analysis indicates that she is King Tut’s mother and a sister of Akhenaten, but her name is unknown. Kenneth Garrett. Kiya Kiya was one of Akhenaten's wives and once believed to be Tut's mother.

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 ...

The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered archaeologists since it’s been feared to be linked to the mysterious deaths of multiple of the excavators who discovered ...

Tutankhamun, whose mother died when he was very young, is thought to have been particularly close to Tiye, so perhaps the lock of hair served as a memento. The Younger Lady’s mummy is badly damaged.

The head of King Tut's golden sarcophagus in his underground tomb, located in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Many mysteries remain regarding the life of this ancient Egyptian boy-king.

For more than a century, Egyptologists have debated King Tut's cause of death. ... His mother, also anonymous, was possibly buried in tomb KV35. ...

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

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

King Tut had a club foot and scoliosis, possibly caused by the tradition of incest among the royal family. Carter himself dismissed the notion of a curse as "tommy rot." ...

The Biltmore Estate plays host to one of Egypt's most famous royals: King Tut. Tutankhamun: his tomb and his treasures is a new exhibit that opened on Friday, March 21, at the Amherst at Deerpark ...