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Brown spots in King Tut’s tomb suggest a rush burial
In the tomb of King Tutankhamen (KV 62), the painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar almost every surface. Despite almost a century of scientific investigation, the precise identity of these spots remains a mystery, but Harvard microbiologist Ralph Mitchell thinks that the young pharaoh was buried in an unusual hurry, before... »
Got the cash? Now you can buy ancient Egyptian exact replicas on a 1:1 scale
Dreaming of a King Tut style burial? The new Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs (MSAA) production unit has just released its first batch of ancient Egyptian replicas, including 130 replica statues from collection of King Tutankhamun. The replicas are to be produced for tourists. Some hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh have already bought... »
Missing Tutankhamun artifacts back in the Egyptian Museum
Zahi Hawass announced the return of four items that had gone missing from the Egyptian museum during Egypt’s January Revolution. Among the returned objects was the gilded wooden statue of the boy-king Tutankhamun, standing in a boat throwing a harpoon. Salah Abdel Salam, a public relations person at the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs... »
Restoration work at the Egyptian Museum / Missing objects
The conservation lab team has divided the objects affected by the disturbances in the Museum two weeks ago into several groups depending on their nature and damage sustained. The first group contains pieces that are all in good condition and do not need any restoration work. Most, if not all, of these objects date... »
King Tut’s tomb to remain open
Image via Wikipedia “Tutankhamun’s tomb will not be closed in the near future. It is a long-term plan that has not been decided upon yet,” Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News. Many reports in the past two weeks announced the closure of this tourist magnet by the end of this... »
KV 62 Cairo replica will include missing fragment
Image via Wikipedia Tourists to Egypt will soon be able to visit the tomb of Tutankhamun without setting foot in the Valley of the Kings. A €500,000 life-size facsimile of the Boy King’s tomb and sarcophagus are to be installed in the revamped Suzanne Mubarak Children’s Museum in Cairo (slated to open early this year).... »
Metropolitan Museum to return Tutankhamen’s artifacts to Egypt
Image via Wikipedia The Metropolitan Museum of Art is voluntarily returning 19 small artifacts to Egypt that had been in its collection for decades and that curators recently determined came from Tutankhamen’s tomb. Among the more significant are a tiny bronze dog, less than three-quarters of an inch tall, and a small lapis lazuli sphinx from... »
Australia will host King Tut Show
Image by jvnunag via Flickr Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition will travel to Melbourne, Australia at the beginning of April 2011, the first time that the treasures of the golden king will be displayed in this country. The exhibition contains 140 objects belonging to King Tut and his family, fifty of... »
Gold Mask of Tutankhamun
Image via Wikipedia Made of two beaten and burnished sheets of gold, Tutankhamun’s somewhat idealized likeness weighs 10.23 kg (22.5 pounds). The pharaoh’s mask portrays Tutankhamun wearing the royal nemes headdress, its stripes of opaque blue glass imitating precious lapis lazuli. The vulture Nekhbet and cobra Wadjet, divine symbols of dominion over... »
Replica of the Tomb of Tutankhamun
Recording the tomb of Tutankhamun from factum-arte on Vimeo. The high resolution recording and production of an exact facsimile of the Tomb of Tutankhamun is part of a major initiative by the Supreme Council of Antiquities to preserve the tombs in the Valley of the Kings while making important tombs that are either closed or... »
