The fearsome mummy that spawned a legendary curse and a generation of horror movies turns out to have been a slender, buck-toothed teenager who probably died after a serious accident. A team of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter, guided by the flickering light of oil lamps, ventured into the ...

LUXOR, Egypt — A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb Wednesday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The mummy of King Tutankhamun is to be X-rayed in an attempt to solve the mystery of how the Pharaoh died at age 17, Egypt's chief archaeologist said Sunday. Zahi Hawass said the ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

LUXOR, Egypt -- Somber workers in turbans pulled the mummy of King Tutankhamen out of its tomb in the Valley of the Kings last month and carried it outdoors for the first time in 70 years. Suddenly, ...

Egyptologists are hopeful that ongoing investigations using non-invasive techniques may finally uncover the identity of the Bashiri mummy, a century-old mystery of ancient Egypt, according to the ...

LUXOR, Egypt — King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in ...

Prologue: an archaeological adventure -- Tunnel of legends -- Clues by candlelight -- Opera of a vanished civilization -- Death on swift wings -- A brutal post-mortem -- Palm wine, spices and myrrh -- ...

DIADEM The golden diadem, inlaid with colored glass and semi-precious stones, was still around the head of Tutankhamun when Howard Carter opened the royal coffin more than three thousand two hundred ...