Had Pharaoh not been afflicted by the sin of hubris, he would have wisely utilized this wonderful ability with humility and ...

After a few years at Amarna, the pharaoh ordered work crews to gouge out all images of Amun in state temples. It was an act of unbelievable boldness: the first time in history that a king had ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a tomb belonging to a doctor who treated pharaohs. The 4,100-year-old ...

There are some secrets of the pharaohs, however, that can be revealed only by studying their mummies. By carrying out CT scans of King Tutankhamun's mummy, we were able in 2005 to show that he did ...

How did King Pharaoh of Egypt know Yosef was giving him the correct interpretations of his dreams? At the beginning of Parshat Miketz, the Torah tells us all the details of the two dreams of the king.

For many it conjures up vast empires along the Nile, colossal monuments in stone, pharaohs somehow loftier than kings ruling over a civilization that rivals in singular magnificence any the world ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans have now revealed previously unknown information about the pharaoh and his burial. "We got to see the face of the king that has been wrapped for more than 3,000 ...

Tutankhamun, popularly referred to as "King Tut" today ... It was also smaller than the tombs of other pharaohs, which puzzled researchers. Tutankhamun's death at about age 19 may be the cause ...

One find above all transfixed me: Howard Carter's unearthing of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh known as King Tut. For years after reading C. W. Ceram's book, I dreamed of becoming an ...

When King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922, some believed the Egyptian pharaoh unleashed a powerful curse upon all who dared to disturb his eternal slumber. If you can only name one Egyptian ...