The nitty-gritty of life in previous human eras can’t always be accessed by textbook study. The flavor and feel of the past ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The golden relics of Tut, evoking the life, mysterious death and storied afterlife of the 19-year-old Egyptian King Tutankhamun, is, for many of us, embedded in our childhood memories — along ...

Egypt discovers first royal tomb in over a century 00:35. Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient ...

This face reveal was tut-ally awesome. Scientists have finally unveiled what the fabled Egyptian King Tutankhamen would have looked like during his reign of power over 3,300 years ago. Utilizing a ...

On Nov. 26, 1922, the world of archeology scored the motherlode with the finding of King Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. Archaeologist Howard Carter beat the odds and discovered the mostly-untouched ...

Over a century after King Tutunkhamun's tomb was discovered, archeologists have uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, Egyptian officials declared on Tuesday.

Five thousand years ago in North Africa, an ambitious king, known today as Narmer, unified two lands into the world's first great territorial state—Egypt.

Key Background. The fourth Pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, King Thutmose II died before the age of 30, say historians. He is generally considered less historically important than his father ...

Little is known about Thutmose II, who reigned as pharaoh from about 1493 B.C. until about 1479—more than 100 years before Tutankhamun lived, but part of the same 18th Dynasty of Egyptian kings.

A new king has been added to the long list of ancient pharaohs, the Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities, Mohamed Ibrahim, announced this week.