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When King Tut's tomb was opened, those involved in the discovery started 'mysteriously' dying. Is the Curse of the Pharaohs ...
A dreaded fungus known to inhabit tombs has been reconstituted as a treatment for leukemia and is performing as effectively ...
The mummy of King Tut is put on public display for the first time -- 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's Valley of the Kings.
King Tut's mummy was decked out with jewelry—bracelets, necklaces, pendants, earrings, finger rings, and amulets galore, made of gold and silver set with precious stones such as carnelian, lapis ...
He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...
LUXOR, Egypt — King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ...
Inside King Tut's subterranean burial chamber, against a backdrop of murals, Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, removes padding to reveal the young pharaoh's remains.
His dark eyes glistening with excitement, Egypt’s young King Farouk sped last week to the Nile Delta. There, on the site of ancient Tanis, Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg had discovered ...
Combined, they depicted what life was like in the Nile Valley during King Tut’s reign more than 3,000 years ago. Nearly ... the pharaoh's mummy was moved to a climate-controlled case nearby.
The king’s mummy, was moved from his sarcophagus to a glass climate-controlled case to keep it from turning to dust (Picture: Shutterstock) On February 16, 1923, British archaeologist Howard ...
From Steve Martin's 'Saturday Night Live' song to 'The Mummy' movies, King Tut has had an eventful afterlife. ... but that was the case with “Old King Tut” in 1923.