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Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.

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Major discovery marks culmination of 40 years of work by Arlen and Diane Chase. Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak at Caracol, an ancient Maya city ...

It came from the stars and still dazzles us today. But why is gold believed to be a “store of wealth” – and where is it kept?

In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped the ...

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...

More than 150 conservators and 100 archaeologists labored quietly for over a decade to restore thousands of artefacts for the ...

Among them are his golden funeral mask, gilded coffins ... condition of each piece -- the gold layers, the adhesives, wood structure -- everything," said Mertah, who worked on King Tut's ceremonial ...

The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...