The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Egyptology has been framed in the public mind, and remains to be, a sort of narnia-esque escapade of fantasy and ...

The Imagine company recently announced that an exhibit called "Discovering King Tut’s Tomb" will arrive in Boston this month.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Egyptologist Howard Carter first laid eyes on the preserved tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt back in 1922. An exhibit coming to ...

A new traveling exhibition about the ancient Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun will open to the public in Boston starting this February. The exhibition, titled “Discovering King Tut’s Tomb,” will launch ...

New exhibit offers a glimpse into the life of the "boy king." ...

Cracks and water leaks threaten King Tut's painted tomb, endangering its unique paintings and structure in the Valley of the ...

On Feb. 3, 1938, Victor Charles Buono was born in San Diego, decades before he would bring larger-than-life villainy and comic flair to screens nationwide.

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 ...

In this "MSNBC Sunday Exclusive," join anchor [e.g., Andrea Mitchell] for a rare, inside look at the world's greatest archaeological discovery. One hundred years after Howard Carter and the 5th Earl ...