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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artifacts from King Tut's tomb are going on tour next year to mark the upcoming 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Egyptian pharaoh's resting place. The California Science Center says the exhibit, "KING TUT: Treasures of the ...
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Son of Original Finder Says His Father, Not Carter, Discovered King Tut’s Tomb and Its Secrets
Rasoul, was 12 when he pointed British archaeologist Howard Carter to a tilted stone on Luxor’s West Bank in Nov 1922.
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With pharaoh-fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization
Egypt was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday, the world’s largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization — a
LUXOR, Egypt -- Somber workers in turbans pulled the mummy of King Tutankhamen out of its tomb in the Valley of the Kings last month and carried it outdoors for the first time in 70 years. Suddenly, gusts of wind swept dust up through the canyon.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Union Station in Kansas City will be turned into Egypt this summer, when visitors will be able to re-create the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Station officials announced this week that the exhibit, "The Discovery of King Tut," will run ...
Beginning Thursday, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be the first stop of a multi-city tour for the exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs. The exhibition includes 130 works from the Egyptian National Museum, Cairo and presents ...
“Howard Carter was a British archaeologist that was passionate about what he did, and he was convinced there was an undisturbed, intact tomb in that valley of the kings,” Executive Director Mark Lach said. In 1922, Howard Carter, a British ...
RAIN MOVES IN AHEAD AND WEATHERWATCH 12 A NEW IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE IS TRANSPORTING MILWAUKEEANS TO ONE OF THE MOST THRILLING ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN HISTORY. I GOT AN INSIDE LOOK AT BEYOND KING TUT OPENING TODAY AT THE BAIRD CENTER, FORMERLY KNOWN AS ...
Fever Replicating the objects in King Tut’s tomb for public display is a practice almost ... In the late 1970s, as a byproduct of U.S. diplomacy, Egypt allowed some contents of the tomb to tour museums in six cities for a blockbuster exhibit.
Negotiations for the exhibition dragged on for three years while the Egyptian Parliament and many archaeologists resisted lifting a travel ban imposed in 1982 after a gilt goddess from Tut’s tomb was broken while on tour in Germany. In the end, Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, intervened.
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Inside Nefertari's Forbidden Tomb: A Final Gift for Egypt's Most Beautiful Queen
On the final day of our expedition, we are granted special access to the most breathtaking tomb in Egypt: Queen Nefertari's final resting place. Witness the stunning, vibrant art that her husband, Ramses the Great,