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 ...

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 — ...

Though it has not had the same gee-whiz, near non-stop media attention that the 1977 “Treasures of Tutankhamun” exhibition enjoyed, this year’s King Tut show at the Field Museum has all the signs of ...

As the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the memorial to another King Tut lies forgotten in the backyard of a Washington ...

The tomb of King Tut, Egypt’s short-lived ruler who marked the end of the 18th dynasty, was discovered 100 years ago. King Tutankhamun was born in 1342 B.C. in the ancient city of Amarna, ascended to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Ben Kingsley is the selling point of “Tut,” Spike’s three-part miniseries about the pharaoh formerly known as Tutankhamen, which premieres Sunday. He is something to see, Sir Ben, with his shaven pate ...

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 ...