The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife Nefertiti and his son, Tutankhamun, has captured the modern imagination as much as any other figure from ancient Egypt.

The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922—contained a "wonderful" cache of objects linked to the ancient Egyptian ...

King Tutankhamun’s grandmother’s face has been reconstructed by a Photoshop artist using her 3,400-year-old mummified remains ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum has been in the works for over two decades. Construction ground to a halt during the Arab Spring a ...

1922: The tomb of Tutankhamun, or King Tut, was discovered in 1922 ... The Nile floods every year in the summer, and it has ...

1, 2025, filling the museum's main galleries in celebration of another ancient Egyptian who wasn't a king. "But our mummy ...

Naunton, a lecturer, broadcaster and author of several popular books on ancient Egypt, is hopeful that eventually archaeologists could discover Tut’s parentage in inscribed stones. “It is absolutely ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...