  Let $T$ be a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space
$\mathscr{H}.$ We obtain various lower and upper bounds for the numerical
radius of $T$ by developing the Euclidean operator radius bounds of a pair of
operators, which are stronger than the existing ones. In particular, we develop
an inequality that improves on the inequality $$ w(T) \geq \frac12
{\|T\|}+\frac14 {\left|\|Re(T)\|-\frac12 \|T\| \right|} + \frac14 { \left|
\|Im(T)\|-\frac12 \|T\| \right|}.$$ Various equality conditions of the existing
numerical radius inequalities are also provided. Further, we study the
numerical radius inequalities of $2\times 2$ off-diagonal operator matrices.
Applying the numerical radius bounds of operator matrices, we develop the upper
bounds of $w(T)$ by using $t$-Aluthge transform. In particular, we improve the
well known inequality
  $$ w(T) \leq \frac12 {\|T\|}+ \frac12{ w(\widetilde{T})}, $$ where
$\widetilde{T}=|T|^{1/2}U|T|^{1/2}$ is the Aluthge transform of $T$ and
$T=U|T|$ is the polar decomposition of $T$.
