While the artifact's provenance is unclear, many experts think the archaeologist Howard Carter took the item for himself ...

Archaeologists examining an ancient Egyptian tomb have made a groundbreaking discovery. The catacomb, features a large pink ...

A tiny wooden grasshopper that Egyptologists believe was stolen from the tomb of Tutankhamun just fetched $455,000 at auction ...

A toxic fungus killed ten scientists working on a tomb in Poland, and it’s believed the same spore killed those who excavated ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Pétain, De Gaulle, Eisenhower… Many great military leaders, thanks to the popularity and prestige ...

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.

‘Dinner With King Tut’ Review: The Taste of Ancient Egypt The nitty-gritty of life in previous human eras can’t always be accessed by textbook study.

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

Scientists find cancer-fighting properties in fungus from King Tut's tomb, offering hope for new leukemia treatments.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, genetically modified bacteria that turn plastic into Tylenol and more.