Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When archaeologists first glimpsed the gilded splendor of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, they never thought that one of the most ...

The mummified remains of the famous-infamous Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut, were excavated from his pyramid tomb in 1922 from the valley of kings in Egypt. The excavation has ...

King Tutankhamun, or King Tut for short, became ruler of Ancient Egypt more than 3,300 years ago when he was just nine years old. He died just a decade later, ending a rather unmemorable rule. In fact ...

New research shows that an iron dagger buried with King Tutankhamun was made from a meteorite. It even suggests the Egyptians knew what they were working with. Archaeologists and historians have been ...

King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space. “The nickel and cobalt ratio in the dagger blade is consistent with ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Tutankhamun, the ancient Egyptian boy-king better known as King Tut, was a pretty cool kid. While most 9-year-olds these days are still trudging ...

The legend of King Tut has lost some of its shine in recent years: The fabled boy king, it turns out, was probably born with the misshapen features that earlier archaeologists attributed to injuries ...

“I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, ‘Can you see anything?’ it was all I could do to get out the words, ‘Yes, ...

A dagger buried alongside King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, according to research published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Using X-ray fluorescence, a team of ...

A dagger buried alongside King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, according to research published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Using X-ray fluorescence, a team of ...

In the past, scientists have claimed that an iron dagger, found along with a gold blade in King Tut’s tomb, may have come from meteorites. Other ancient Egyptian iron artifacts have also been ...