The £760 million megaproject for the first time displays all of King Tutankhamun’s funeral treasures in one place.

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

Egypt on Saturday is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, aiming to boost tourism and revitalize the economy ...

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and ...

The museum sits at the crossroads of ancient history and a modern tourism revival — linking directly to the Giza plateau via pedestrian paths and eco-friendly transport. Daily visitor numbers are ...

Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, aged eight or nine, and restored the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion Ancient Egypt is most is known for. But, he was dead and buried by the time ...

Inside King Tut's subterranean burial chamber, against a backdrop of murals, Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, removes padding to reveal the young pharaoh's remains. Kenneth ...

Tut, who became pharaoh at the age of 10 in 1333 B.C., ruled for just nine years at a pivotal time in Egypt’s history. While a comparatively minor king, the 1922 discovery of his tomb filled with ...

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 ...

A disaster could strike at any moment, and if the Valley of the Kings is to be preserved, action must be taken before it is ...

The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered archaeologists since it’s been feared to be linked to the mysterious deaths of multiple excavators who discovered it in 1922.

Ramses the Great and King Tut The museum, known as GEM ... The collection includes the boy pharaoh’s three funeral beds and six chariots, his golden throne, his gold-covered sarcophagus and his burial ...