An ancient Egyptian pharaoh may have ruled more than 3,300 years ago - but his legacy still resonates through a Norfolk town ...

One hundred years ago on this day, November 4, the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun was discovered. Egyptian workers (and possibly a single boy working away from the main area) found the steps to this ...

'How did Howard Carter Locate Tutankhamun's Tomb?' On November 4th 1922 a breathless archaeologist, who had spent his life working in Egypt, wrote a hurried diary entry: “First steps of Tomb Found”.

Over one hundred years ago Howard Carter, a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, made the discovery of a lifetime. On 26 November 1922 he punched a small hole in the doorway of a tomb and peered ...

Monday marked the 102nd anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings on November 4, 1922, one of the most spectacular discoveries in archaeology. On that fateful day, ...

One hundred years ago, archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled across the tomb of ancient Egypt’s King Tutankhamun. Carter’s life was never the same. Neither was the young pharaoh’s afterlife. Newspapers ...

How did chemist Alfred Lucas, dubbed "Egypt's Sherlock Holmes," save the fragile treasures recovered from King Tut's tomb?

In 1922, Howard Carter and his team of archaeologists were the first to enter the most famous Egyptian tomb ever uncovered – Tutankhamun's tomb. Much like many tombs of the era, the tomb was sprawling ...

Tutankhamun’s tomb, discovered in 1922, is still the most intact pharaoh’s tomb ever found. At the time, King Tut’s exquisite artifacts and his elaborate burial shrine captivated the world and ...

"In 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamun's tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that ...

After the discovery, it took years to move most of the tomb’s contents to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (Note: The new Grand Egyptian Museum, about 12 miles west of the existing Egyptian Museum, is ...

OXFORD England (Reuters) - Egypt's "boy king" Tutankhamun has gripped the imagination since his tomb was discovered in 1922, and a new exhibition tells the enthralling tale of how archaeologists ...