British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.

Adorned with semi-precious stones and inlaid with intricately carved glass, Tutankhamun's golden mummy mask was photographed by Burton in December 1925. He took more than 20 pictures of the mask ...

A gallery of black and white photos reveal what the ancient country looked like before tourism had taken hold One image shows a hoard of antiquities in Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb, following its ...

Tutankhamun ruled Egypt from the age of about ... alive As a young girl Prof Fletcher already marvelled at the colourful pictures and stories of the Egyptians in her parent's books but remembers ...

Mystery box found in Tutankhamun's cursed tomb opened for first time on camera ...

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 ...