CAIRO – Egypt will soon reveal the results of DNA tests made on the world’s most famous ancient king, the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun, to answer lingering mysteries over his lineage, the … ...

Tutankhamun has always captured popular imagination, and been a major draw for museums. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

They are a rather unusual set of family photos, but scientists today released the first images of Tutankhamun's mother, grandmother and grandfather. Researchers from Egypt, Italy and Germany used ...

Photo Album: King Tut, Queen Nefertiti, and One Tangled Family Tree. Archaeologists investigating the famous pharaoh’s tomb confront the mystery of his missing stepmother—Nefertiti.

Lifestyle; History 'Unexpected' Tutankhamun discovery after DNA results used to trace Boy King's family The Boy King is one of Egypt's most iconic pharaohs after the discovery of his tomb in 1922.

Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen ...