THE mystery of what killed King Tutankhamun may finally be solved — after scientists unearthed groundbreaking DNA evidence. The young pharaoh's untimely death at just 18 has baffled experts for ...

A team of scientists from Egypt's ... to Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye - but the identity of his parents remains partly shrouded in mystery. Clues point to the mummy found in tomb KV55 ...

CT Scanning equipment by Siemens AG; Data courtesy, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Arab Republic of Egypt ... near the thighs of the mummy to allow the golden face mask to be put into ...

Most striking is the famous Step Pyramid, built in the 27th century B.C. by Djoser, the Old Kingdom pharaoh who ... ever unearthed in Egypt. Great collections of mummies and coffins have been ...

Egyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems. The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat ...

A mummy lies exposed in an open storage box ... Many came from the Napatan era in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., when ...

Ancient Egyptians were ruled by a leader called ... Most pyramids were royal tombs where the mummies of pharaohs and other important people, like nobles and government officials, were buried ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great ... the body was placed in a sarcophagus or coffin and sealed within a tomb. For pharaohs, the burial process was even more elaborate, with ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

The mystery of the 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been stuck in a 'scream' for thousands of years, has baffled scientists for almost a century. Believed to have passed away at about ...