The Louisiana Art & Science Museum is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its mummy with the exhibit, 'Discoveries on the Nile: Exploring King Tut’s Tomb and the Amin Egyptian Collection.' ...

King Tut is sometimes called the "boy king" because he ascended the throne at age 9 or 10, in the 14th century B.C. He died about a decade later.

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 ...

Neither did R.G. Harrison, who X-rayed Tutankhamun’s mummy in the 1960s. ... The static nature of Egyptian art permits such a reconstruction.

Tutankhamun's mummy and his grand burial goods have provided precious information about ancient Egyptian art, culture, and ...

During Tutankhamun’s funeral, priests poured such large amounts of resin over his mummy that when it solidified, the body, and the gold mask it wore, were left glued to the coffin. To free them ...

“In October we will be able to announce the discovery of the mummy of Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun’s wife, and her mother, Nefertiti.” “There is also in tomb KV35 the mummy of a 10-year-old ...

Scholars argue that the mummy dates back to the Ptolemaic period, between the 2nd and early 3rd centuries BCE. The art of mummification was at its peak during this era.