The objects in the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamen — or, as a new exhibition at the National Geographic Museum spells it, Tutankhamun — were meant to commemorate the Egyptian ruler’s life and guide ...

For nearly a century, visitors have flocked to the Egyptian Museum on Cairo’s Tahrir Square to admire Tutankhamun’s funerary mask, the intricately decorated artifact designed to cover the mummified ...

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of the boy pharaoh excavated from the darkness 3,300 years ago. This 110-kilogram solid gold mask once covered the mummy of ...