We're replacing BBC Sounds outside the UK and bringing you BBC.com, a seamless way to read, watch, and listen - all in one place. The banker turned archaeologist who led the discovery of the tomb of ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

She has also been described as the“first great woman in history”. Hatshepsut was the wife and half sister of pharaoh Thutmose II. Following the premature death of her husband, she acted as regent for ...

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

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

Actress Hanan Motawie has been cast as Queen Hatshepsut in a new play titled 'Hatshepsut: Throne and Love', coming soon to ...

Fynbos and Prokofiev may fight out the finish of the Zavaray S. Poonawalla Bangalore Summer Derby (2,000m), the stellar attraction of the races to be held here on Sunday (July 13).

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

A young girl had been meticulously cut up and rearranged in the tomb - and now, researchers think they know why ...