In 1922, the world stood in awe as the tomb of King Tutankhamen was unveiled. But a century later, new research and strange ...

Like Barbra Streisand, Elton John and Cher, Tutankhamun, boy king of ancient Egypt, periodically goes on a world tour for what may or may not be a last live performance for the fans. Or, in Tut’s case ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...

An ancient evil unleashed on an unsuspecting land? Well, that's what the stories would have you believe. From weird ...

Though it has not had the same gee-whiz, near non-stop media attention that the 1977 “Treasures of Tutankhamun” exhibition enjoyed, this year’s King Tut show at the Field Museum has all the signs of ...

Spike’s entry into the historical figure-as-swaggering adventurer game with “Tut,” its telling of the coming of age of boy king Tutankhamun, succeeds in entertaining for a midsummer night — or three — ...

Mountain lions are adorable, but unfortunately, they can’t come home with us like cats can. Usually. In 1982, King Tut the ...

The forthcoming “Tut” miniseries may play a bit fast and loose with the facts, but this isn’t the History Channel: It’s Spike. (For that matter, the History Channel isn’t really much of a history ...

A new "virtual autopsy" of Egypt's King Tutankhamun portrays him as a broad-hipped, big-breasted, weak-boned pharaoh who died in his teens due to congenital problems brought on by incest — but that ...

The models show a baby-faced young man with chubby cheeks and his family's characteristic overbite, a weak chin and a pronounced, sloping nose beneath an elongated scalp. Three teams of scientists ...

There has always been something a little disorienting, almost out of proportion, about King Tut. Is there any Egyptian pharaoh now more widely known, any more celebrated? The extraordinary objects ...