Khaled DESOUKI/AFP/AFP As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the ...

The museum’s most anticipated exhibit is the full 5,500 items from King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Egyptians say it’s time to experience their most precious antiquities at home.

Photos show vivid colors bringing a mural brought back to life. CAIRO -- A symposium to celebrate the success of a decade-long restoration project on the tomb of King Tutankhamun was held Thursday in ...

Egypt started the first-ever restoration work on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country's new museum opening next year, the antiquities minister said ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else. The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh in Egypt’s ...

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 ...

The golden funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo — Khaled DESOUKI After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask ...

Egypt inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) with a ceremony including a dazzling drone show on Saturday 1.The museum features a “restoration center, modern galleries, a children’s museum,” and ...

DORAVILLE, Ga. - Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb — an event which gave archeologists unparalleled insight into Ancient Egyptian beliefs and customs.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities denied reports from foreign websites claiming that King Tutankhamun’s tomb on the West Bank of Luxor is at risk of collapse due to cracks in its walls ...