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After weeks of heated debate over its controversial provenance, an artifact that may have been taken illegally from the tomb ...
Running until 26th October, this award-winning exhibition welcomes visitors for an extraordinary journey through Ancient ...
A tiny wooden grasshopper that Egyptologists believe was stolen from the tomb of Tutankhamun just fetched $455,000 at auction ...
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 was one of the biggest of the 20th century but the man behind the find chose to retire from the limelight.
Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.
Tutankhamun’s chariots, they’ve discovered, were all made from a hardwood – elm – a tree not native to Egypt. The wood probably came from somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean more than ...
(Image: Newsquest) The hall containing the main artefacts was dominated by a huge replica sarcophagus which was displayed with a seemingly floating mummy. There wasn’t a lot of exhibits, but this ...
Although Tutankhamun’s gold mask soon became the defining image of the 18th-dynasty Pharaoh’s burial, it was only uncovered in 1925, such was the care taken to catalogue the antechamber and ...
But Tutankhamun's burial ground in the Valley of Kings also has a sharp right turn going in. During the Smithsonian Channel's documentary, Secrets: Tut's Tomb, Naunton noted the ruler's tomb was ...
Tutankhamun famous golden death mask. UPI ... The life and death of Tutankhamun have intrigued researchers ever since the treasure trove of the boy king’s tomb was first discovered in 1922.
King Tutankhamun may have been a boy soldier, new research claims, challenging the theory that the king was a weak and sickly youth before his mysterious death at around 18 years of age.
Tutankhamun’s chariots, they’ve discovered, were all made from a hardwood – elm – a tree not native to Egypt. The wood probably came from somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean more than ...