An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, ...

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures - over 4,500 artefacts - was displayed together for the ...

Two decades and a billion dollars later, the Grand Egyptian Museum is finally open in Cairo. As the museum brings together more than 5,000 treasures from King Tutankhamun's tomb under one roof for the ...

Tutankhamun, the "boy king" of Ancient Egypt, ruled over 3,300 years ago, but his story continues to fascinate the world. While his reign was short, his legacy is immortal, thanks to the stunning 1922 ...

The tomb of King Tutankhamun — better known as King Tut — is at risk of being destroyed, but one researcher is working to save it. A 2025 study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal NPJ ...

The iconic tomb — located in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt — is one of the most poorly preserved in the area Flash flooding as well as fault lines have contributed to the degradation of ...