Since its discovery more than a century ago, the iconic burial mask of King Tut has remained perhaps the defining image of ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans have now revealed previously unknown information about the pharaoh and his burial. "We got to see the face of the king that has been wrapped for more than 3,000 ...

The pharaoh was buried in a gilded wooden coffin that was nested inside of an alabaster sarcophagus and a larger granite ...

Unearthed by British archaeologist Howard Carter, it was the first time a pharaoh's burial chamber had been found intact. Today millions have viewed Tutankhamun's treasures but questions remain ...

Though the coffin's cartouches—oval rings containing the pharaoh's names—had been chiseled off, the coffin bore epithets associated only with Akhenaten himself. But not all the evidence ...

Of course inside that coffin is the young pharaoh’s body. Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden for many centuries. It was covered in debris from other tombs and then hidden by workers' houses.