Mysterious brown spots in the Tomb of Tutankhamun will be fully investigated during a five-year project to restore the burial of the boy King, Egypt's antiquities department announced today. The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has partnered with the California-based Getty Conservation Ins...
New research shows that Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamun had a rough life: he suffered from malaria and deformed feet, two of his children were stillborn, and he died at the age of 19. Scientific analysis suggests that despite his status as royalty, his life seemed cursed. But was his death cursed...
The unusual coffin consisted of four sarcophagi nested together like Russian dolls.
The recent looting of Egyptian artifacts raises thorny cultural questions of preserving history.
