This undated file photo shows Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb, examining King Tut’s sarcophagus. AP ...

The 1922 discovery became a global media sensation—and captured the imagination of millions. When British archaeologist Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s tomb on November 26, 1922, he ...

Just over a century ago, celebrated Egyptologist Howard Carter broke open the seal on a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near modern-day Luxor, and discovered a uniquely near-intact royal burial ...

When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in 1922 and catalogued it, the set of clay troughs were given minimal thought, dashed off as stands for the nearly four-foot high ...

It was on 28 October 1925 – three years after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb – that Carter and his colleagues were finally ready to open the pharaoh’s solid-gold coffin.

Carter’s team included Egyptian foremen Ahmed Gerigar, Gad Hassan, Hussein Abu Awad and Hussein Ahmed, who have typically been excluded from histories of the tomb’s discovery.

Aug. 7, 2006 — -- Just months after archaeologists gleefully clamored over the first tomb to be found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since 1922, there may be another. Located just meters from ...

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 ...