As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

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 ...

The discovery of an incredible ancient shipwreck containing 2,000-year-old artefacts has been described as significant for ...

Aspergillus flavus is a toxic crop fungus that has been linked to deaths in the excavation of ancient tombs. It was recently ...

The highly toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus, known for its yellow spores and associated with legends like the curse of ...

A 101-year-old copy of the Radio Times has been discovered in a church stool that was being refurbished. Furniture restorer ...

Scientists think they've discovered the reason behind the reputed "curse" - and it could be a gamechanger in the fight ...

Siraj-ud-Daulah’s defeat in the Battle of Plassey was followed by the tragic deaths of all those who plotted his downfall ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

A mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...

It gained notoriety after being connected to unexplained deaths that followed the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s. Later investigations into these mysterious deaths suggested that ...