ASHEVILLE - Biltmore Estate will commemorate its 130th anniversary with a historic event exploring ancient Egypt, seasonal programming and the unveiling of renovations at The Inn on Biltmore Estate.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter, guided by the flickering light of oil lamps, ventured into the ...

Among King Tut’s treasures was a dagger unlike anything else in ancient Egypt. Scientific analysis revealed it was made from ...

In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the ...

GIZA, Egypt — They’re the crown jewels of the Grand Egyptian Museum — two galleries devoted to the ancient pharaoh Tutankhamun. Showcasing more than 5,300 objects from the young king’s tomb, including ...

Sometime this year, the $1 billion, 20-years-in-the-making Grand Egyptian Museum will open by the Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau near Cairo. That’s great news for global travelers, who will be ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the Egyptian conservator ...

Visitors to COSI will have the opportunity to take a once-in-a-lifetime journey back in time to see what King Tut's burial chambers looked like and learn more about the archaeology of Egypt in the ...

After the discovery, it took years to move most of the tomb’s contents to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (Note: The new Grand Egyptian Museum, about 12 miles west of the existing Egyptian Museum, is ...

It was an unusual sight at a black-tie gala: hundreds of museum patrons and curiosity seekers ignoring the cocktail hour and donning headsets to better study the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Treasures from the tomb of boy-king Tutankhamun will go on show in London from Saturday as part of what organisers say will be their last world tour before they return to Egypt for ...