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Tutankhamun

October 2022

  • Archaeologist Ola El Aguizy discovers the sarcophagus of Ptah-M-Wia during excavations of a tomb at Saqqara, south of Cairo

    Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is unearthed near Cairo

    The coffin of Ptah-em-wia has been found in its underground burial chamber at Saqqara, and features in a TV documentary

September 2022

  • Zawi Hawass, head of High Council for Antiquities, supervises the removal of the mummy of Tutankhamun

    Tutankhamun’s burial chamber may contain door to Nefertiti’s tomb

    Hidden hieroglyphics could suggest the king is buried within a much larger structure housing the Egyptian queen

August 2022

  • Detail from the golden coffin of the boy king Tutankhamun

    Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure, new evidence suggests

    100 years after the discovery of the tomb of the boy king, a previously unpublished letter backs up long-held suspicions

September 2021

  • Undated picture of archaeologist and Egyptologist, Howard Carter.

    From the Guardian archive
    Howard Carter gives a talk about his discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb – archive, 1923

    22 September 1923: The English Egyptologist explains to a London audience how he and Lord Carnarvon made the historic find

December 2019

  • -- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013 -- Two veiled Egyptian women, supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, sit in front police standing behind barbed wire fencing that blocks the access to the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo on July 8, 2013. Forty-two loyalists of Egypt’s ousted president were killed while demonstrating against last week’s military coup, triggering an Islamist uprising call and dashing the army’s hopes for an interim civilian administration. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMSMAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images

    The Buried by Peter Hessler review – life, death and revolution in Egypt

    This remarkable example of ‘slow journalism’ links the pharaohs with Egypt’s Arab spring

November 2019

  • Face of a queen? … a calcite stopper for the canopic jar found in Tutankhamun’s tomb, currently on display in Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh at the Saatchi, London.

    Original tomb raider: was Tutankhamun buried in someone else's grave?

  • Richard Brooks

    McMafia returns to take on Trump’s America

    Richard Brooks
  • A wooden guardian statue of Tutankhamun, which flanked the sealed entrance to his burial chamber.

    Tutankhamun's glitzy farewell tour a timely promotion for Egypt

  • part of a wooden guardian statue of the ka of the king, wearing the Nemes headcloth, from Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh.

    Tutankhamun review – thrills and fun as King Tut gets the Hollywood treatment

September 2019

  • Cairo: Crisis in tourism industry continues<br>Restored King Tutankhamun mask.Tourists take their picture with the mask memorabilia. In spite of the many attempts to restore tourism in the country, major crisis still continue after the two revolutions, tourists have stopped coming to Egypt. (Photo by Fayed El-Geziry / Pacific Press) (Photo by Pacific Press/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Show me the mummy: the undying allure of ancient Egypt

  • A gold inlaid coffinette of Tutankhamun.

    Who's the mummy? Tutankhamun show breaks French visitor record

July 2019

  • A 3,000-year-old stone bust of Tutankhamun.

    Egypt asks Interpol to trace Tutankhamun relic auctioned in UK

  • The brown quartzite bust of young king Tutankhamun sold at Christie’s in London for £4.7m ($5.97m).

    Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for £4.7m despite Egypt protests

June 2019

  • The brown quartzite bust of Tutankhamun

    Egypt tries to stop sale of Tutankhamun statue in London

    Officials fear bust of pharaoh might have been looted from Karnak temple in Luxor

February 2019

  • John Crace

    Digested week
    Funereal TIG launch distracts from Grayling's latest humiliation

    John Crace
  • Animals, statues and gold: A coffinette which held Tutankhamun’s liver after he was mummified will be part of the exhibition on show in London.

    The mummy of all Tutankhamun shows will land in London

May 2018

  • The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun

    No hidden rooms in Tutankhamun burial chamber, says Egypt

    Antiquities ministry says radar scans give conclusive evidence there are no hidden rooms

March 2018

  • Howard Carter with the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, around 1925.

    From the Guardian archive
    Egyptologist Howard Carter dies - archive, 1939

    3 March 1939: The archeologist discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun

February 2018

  • Wren, with his finest achievement, St Paul’s Cathedral, in the background.

    A look back
    From the Observer archive: this week in 1923

    The bicentenary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren

February 2017

  • Howard Carter with the sarcophagus of Tutankamun.

    A look back
    From the Observer archive: this week in 1923

    Tutankhamun’s splendour is revealed to the world
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