THE mystery of what killed King Tutankhamun may finally be solved — after scientists unearthed groundbreaking DNA evidence.

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the ...

The BBC aired a documentary called Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered in 2014, which presented results from genetic analysis of ...

His enduring legacy owes much to the spectacular discovery of his tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, which ...

One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity. In 1907 a badly decayed mummy was discovered in KV55, a small tomb in the Valley of ...

Akhenaten’s successors were mostly scathing about his reign. Even Tutankhamun—whose brief reign has been a subject of fascination since his tomb was discovered in 1922—issued a decree ...

If correct, this theory could explain the genetic data without requiring that Akhenaten and his wife were full siblings, suggesting instead that the appearance of close genetic matching could result ...