Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.

A handout photo made available by Egyptian Ministry Of Antiquities on July 17, 2019, shows King Tutankhamun's gold coffin after it was transported to undergo a restoration process at the Grand ...

The outer coffin was left in Tutankhamun's tomb. This gold-gilded coffin measured 7.3 feet by 2.7 feet. It is 3.4 feet in height.

Inside the sarcophagus were three nested coffins, with the innermost coffin made of solid gold weighing 4,110 kilograms. When the inner golden coffin was opened, the golden mask of the young king ...

On Jan. 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found the stone sarcophagus that contained the gold coffin and mummy of the ...

The 7-foot, 3-inch-long gold coffin, which depicts the boy king as Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, was resting inside a plastic incubator in one of the 17 state-of-the-art laboratories ...

According to History Extra and the BBC, the innermost coffin was made from thick sheets of beaten gold, while surrounded by wood and would be well over $1.2 million.

King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered on Nov. 4, 1922. Here are 10 facts about the Ancient Egyptian ruler and the tomb he was buried in as the 100th anniversary draws near.

Tutankhamun and his gold-laden tomb have captivated the public since its discovery more than 100 years ago. Now the story of the Ancient Egyptian boy king is being told in a digital exhibition in ...

The right ear of the innermost gold coffin of the Pharaoh. In fact, of the 22 people who had witnessed the opening of the sarcophagus, only two died within the decade. Carter died in 1939, at 64.

Egypt started the first-ever restoration work on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country’s new museum opening next year, the antiquities minister ...

To this day, the tomb of Tutankhamun remains the most complete representation of the riches enjoyed by ancient Egyptian pharaohs. In order to gain a deeper appreciation of the importance of this ...