As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Siraj-ud-Daulah’s defeat in the Battle of Plassey was followed by the tragic deaths of all those who plotted his downfall ...

When King Tut's tomb was opened, those involved in the discovery started 'mysteriously' dying. Is the Curse of the Pharaohs real, or can it be explained in another way? Science has tried to explain ...

From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums ...

The myth gained global attention in the 1920s, when the tomb of King Tutankhamun was unearthed by a team of archaeologists. What followed was a chain of mysterious deaths, including Lord Carnarvon, ...

Could the deadly fungus linked to Tutankhamun’s curse be the key to a groundbreaking cancer treatment? In recent years, the ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania claim that the deadly fungus can be a huge breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Aspergillus flavus, which has been linked to many deaths ...