In this Thursday, November 5, 2015 file photo, tourists look at the tomb of King Tut as it is displayed in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. (AP Photo) Cairo: An archaeologist ...

CAIRO, Egypt — An archaeologist said Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of ...

Tutankhamun, the boy king of ancient Egypt, came to power only after two of his sisters jointly held the throne, according to an Egyptologist at Canada's Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM).

For the first time since its 1996 discovery, the tomb of Tutankhamun's wet nurse Maya (Maia) was opened to journalists on Dec. 20. The tomb will officially open to the public in January 2016. Mamdouh ...

An archaeologist said on Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king.

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Egyptian archeologist Sabry Farag gives a tour inside the tomb of Maia, the wet nurse of legendary Egyptian boy king ...