During that time, Egypt stopped building pyramids for pharaohs ... However, the large amount of flammable oil caused Tutankhamun's mummy to catch fire shortly after his burial.

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

The idea of a "mummy's curse" actually precedes ... the mysterious death of Lord Carnarvon after entering the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun could potentially be explained by an ...

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

Unlike the fanfare surrounding King Tut's tomb, this mysterious Egyptian mummy received relatively little attention at the time despite its unique characteristics. The circumstances of the ...

The mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun will not be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo and will remain in its ...

The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th century BC. It is the first ...

Queen Nefertiti's Mummy May Have Been Found, Says Leading Archaeologist King Tut: The mysteries still surrounding Ancient Egypt's boy pharoah 50 of the Greatest Archaeological Discoveries of All ...

Hawass, who has been studying Egyptian history and excavating ... we will be able to announce the discovery of the mummy of Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's wife, and her mother, Nefertiti.

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities This is the first royal Egyptian tomb to be found since King Tutankhamun’s tomb ... Thutmose II's mummy was discovered in 1881 in Al-Deir El-Bahari ...