Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. An ancient alabaster vase ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ...

Spike’s entry into the historical figure-as-swaggering adventurer game with “Tut,” its telling of the coming of age of boy king Tutankhamun, succeeds in entertaining for a midsummer night — or three — ...

Like Barbra Streisand, Elton John and Cher, Tutankhamun, boy king of ancient Egypt, periodically goes on a world tour for what may or may not be a last live performance for the fans. Or, in Tut’s case ...

The forthcoming “Tut” miniseries may play a bit fast and loose with the facts, but this isn’t the History Channel: It’s Spike. (For that matter, the History Channel isn’t really much of a history ...

As if we weren’t excited enough for the long-delayed full unveiling of Giza’s Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in July, the institution has just announced that it has received another 163 artifacts from ...

A new "virtual autopsy" of Egypt's King Tutankhamun portrays him as a broad-hipped, big-breasted, weak-boned pharaoh who died in his teens due to congenital problems brought on by incest — but that ...

The “Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is about to collide with the Golden Age of Marketing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. King Tut’s tomb relics last came to L.A. in 1978 in the landmark ...

The models show a baby-faced young man with chubby cheeks and his family's characteristic overbite, a weak chin and a pronounced, sloping nose beneath an elongated scalp. Three teams of scientists ...

At the California Science Center in Los Angeles, the young are coming to marvel at the old – the very, very old: the treasures of King Tut, more than 3,000 years old, and still gleaming. Dr. Zahi ...

Tutty, we hardly knew ye. Surprisingly enough, for the first two hours of Spike's Tut (Sunday, 9 ET/PT, ** stars out of four), a six-hour sand-and-sandal melodrama, our almost total lack of knowledge ...

There has always been something a little disorienting, almost out of proportion, about King Tut. Is there any Egyptian pharaoh now more widely known, any more celebrated? The extraordinary objects ...