possibly King Tut's stepmother whose body has never been found. They hypothesize that Tutankhamun's sudden death at 18 may have saw the shape of his face grafted on top of the true owner of the mask.

Born around 1305BC, Tutankhamun only ruled Egypt for about ten years. Yet his tomb was furnished with never-before-seen riches. Our fascination with mummies is understandable. Gazing on the face of a ...

The study also showed that Tutankhamun died when he was ... with a potbelly and a thick-lipped, elongated face. FatherAkhenaten KV55The identity of King Tut’s father has long been a mystery.

This suggests Tutankhamun's face was "effectively grafted on" to another ... "I was sure the death mask was not specifically designed for King Tut," she said. There are clues in the death mask ...

Experts believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known, was the last of his dynasty of pharaohs. He ruled as a boy only for a short time. He is most famous because his tomb was discovered almost intact and ...

100 years later, his riches still have much to reveal. We dig into the missing heart of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun and what archaeologists have learned a century since the discovery of the ...

Recently, King Tutankhamun's tomb has been raised to the limelight again because of a claim made by a scientist. According to Dr Nicholas Brown, an Egyptologist at Yale University, the treasures ...

The construction of these pyramids helped pharaohs' souls reach the heavens and facilitated the king's passage to the ... began during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, between 1336 BCE and ...