A re-examination of King Tutankhamun’s burial mask showed it wasn’t originally made for him.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 female or ...

A re-examination of King Tutankhamun’s burial mask showed it wasn’t originally made for him.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 female or ...

Guests will have the chance to learn about the rituals of mummification, ancient Egyptian culture and mythology and the ...

King Tut’s golden mask is iconic, but did you know X-rays revealed some surprising details about it? Turns out, the mask wasn’t originally made just for him—it might have been repurposed from someone ...

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The 8 people who will be charged are six restorers and two former heads of the restoration section at the museum, and they're accused of negligence and violation of the professional rules of the ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

What would you do if you accidentally broke one of the world’s most valuable relics? Glue it back together? Quickly? Before anyone noticed? Well, yes, that might be what you would do, because you ...

Excited archeologists on Thursday hailed an ancient burial site found on the side of a road near a pub and a budget supermarket as Britain's answer to the tomb of Egypt's King Tutankhamun. The small ...