A suitcase, believed to have belonged to the explorer who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, was found under a bed and sold at auction for £12,000, ($15,000), skyrocketing over its presale estimate of ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster containers from the burial of King Tut has taunted archaeologists with a ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

"In 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamun's tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that ...

Although Egypt, a superpower with a population of 1 million to 1.5 million, commanded territory stretching from Sudan almost to the Euphrates River, the empire under Akhenaten, “had crumpled up like a ...