When Howard Carter peered through a small opening in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, he wasn’t just looking at gold that had ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

For many people, an interest in Ancient Egypt begins in childhood — and Tutankhamun is often the spark. In this video, a lifelong dream becomes reality with a visit inside the boy king’s tomb in the ...

King Tutankhamun’s tomb is the smallest royal burial in the Valley of the Kings — and one of the strangest. Its layout breaks with tradition, and only a single chamber was ever decorated. By ...

Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was ...

"Wonderful things," Howard Carter famously replied when he was asked what he saw upon entering Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun's ...

It’s 11am in the Valley of the Kings by the time I emerge, blinking into the sun, from the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun ...

The recently discovered tomb of King Thutmose II, located on the West Bank of Luxor, has been ranked among the top 10 ...

Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.

By DON STEWART For the Valley Advocate A century ago, when women could be arrested for smoking in public and the ...

It’s that time again when we turn the calendar page on one year and meet another. For many Americans, these last weeks of ...

CAIRO — Former UA scholar Nicholas Reeves believes the tomb of King Tutankhamun may not have revealed all its secrets. And the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities agrees with him. In a news conference ...