Tutankhamun 'was not black' Comments. ... in June 2005 when black activists demanded that a bust of the boy king be removed because the statue portrayed him as white. The face of the legendary pharaoh ...

Tutankhamun inherited a throne tainted by the shifts in religious and political practices implemented by his father, Akhenaten. His reign had been hallmarked by the move from the capital city of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. CAIRO - Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted today that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists ...

Colourisation of the rather messy-looking black and white photograph reveals that his wrapped body was actually festooned with colourful jewellery. The discovery of Tutankhamun’s body also ...

A new exhibition at National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands, has sparked controversy by including a contemporary artwork that appears to depict the Pharaoh Tutankhamun as Black.

Several of the 14,000 images he took are now on display at the Ashmolean’s Discovering Tutankhamun exhibit at Oxford University. Looking at these black-and-white photographs, ...

Former Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass described depicting Queen Cleopatra as a black woman as “falsifying facts”, adding that “ This is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that ...

A gallery of black and white snaps selected by DailyMail.com reveal what the country looked like long before tourism had evolved in the ancient lands. Now more than 13 million visitors descend.

King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with a collection of thousands of priceless artifacts — some of which experts now believe were previously overlooked.

Records indicate that Tutankhamun was born in 1341 B.C. and died at the age of 18 or 19 in 1323 B.C. after having reigned as the Egyptian pharaoh for roughly nine years, according to the British ...