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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The rough handling separated his limbs and head from his torso. Tutankhamun is the only known royal mummy to remain in his tomb in Egypt. At some point, possibly during the second world war, his tomb ...

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 ...

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.

Rather than one royal mummy, a cache of mummies was discovered ... Loret lit candles and entered. (King Tut's grandparents were Egypt's royal power couple.) In the flickering gloom, he and the ...