When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

What on Earth were the pyramids up to? The current scholarly consensus is that they served as monumental royal tombs. Of ...

Adapted from master storyteller Stephen King’s first-written novel and directed by Francis Lawrence, the visionary director behind The Hunger Games film franchise (Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Pts. 1 & ...

King Tutankhamun's cause of death has been a debate for more than a century, but a DNA analysis has brought experts closer to understanding what killed the boy king. After analyzing King Tut's ...

AT 430. WHAT DOES A PHARAOH BORN OVER 3000 YEARS AGO HAVE TO DO WITH THE BILTMORE ESTATE? WELL, MORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. AN EXHIBITION CALLED TUTANKHAMUN HIS TOMB AND HIS TREASURES OPENED THERE ...

He was inspired by his teacher - who was the great-niece of Howard Carter, who found Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built more than 4,600 years ago to house Khufu, a king from ...

She was also Tutankhamun’s great-grandmother ... no more than a stage upon which the new king stood, his voice amplified by some sort of early (or alien?) microphone. Immortality and the ...

The last one was King Tut’s in 1922. Joining me to sift through the details ... There’s a new finding about some weird alien ice. What’s that about? MAGGIE KOERTH: Yeah. Well, so they’re calling this ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else. The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh in ...

A re-examination of King Tutankhamun’s burial mask showed it wasn’t originally made for him. The earring holes on the mask provide an obvious clue the mask was intended for a high-status ...