Tutankhamun, the famed ancient Egyptian "boy king" who ascended the throne as a child, died when he was around 19 years old, sometime between 1327 B.C and 1323 B.C. But Tut's death was unexpected, and ...

A tour of Ay's tomb with Egyptologist Dr. Tarek Tawfik. Yasmin and Rashad tour Ay's tomb in the Valley of the Monkeys with Egyptologist Dr. Tarek Tawfik in an attempt to find out if the tomb really ...

More than three millenniums after Tutankhamen was buried in southern Egypt, and a century after his tomb was discovered, Egyptologists are still squabbling over for whom the chamber was built and what ...

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 excavators who discovered it in 1922.

CAIRO – Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor. Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found brick ...

CAIRO -- Egypt's best-known archaeologist revealed Saturday further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor. Zahi Hawass said archaeologists found brick houses, ...

A century ago, the mummified body of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was unwrapped for the first time - having been entombed thousands of years before. To mark the hundred-year anniversary, a ...

One hundred years ago this week, the archaeologist Howard Carter chiseled a hole in a doorway of an as-yet-unexplored vault in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings and, by candlelight, peered in. What do you ...

He'll play the grand vizier to King Tutankhamun in the six-part limited series, the network's return to scripted fare. By Lesley Goldberg Ben Kingsley (CAA, the U.K.'s Independent Talent, Stone Meyer) ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mummies capture our imaginations and our hearts. Full of secrets and magic, they were once people who lived and loved, ...