Egypt
The boy Pharaoh will be put in climate controlled case visible to tourists for the first time. The effects of thousands of visitor a day are taking their toll and must also be damaging his outer gilded coffin which lye's unprotected in his quartzite sarcophagus.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071009-king-tut.html
- Book Review: Tutankhamen's Curse By Joyce Tyldesley
The Guardian, UK (Review by Toby Wilkinson) Among the manifold treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb, "the only thing missing", as Joyce Tyldesley notes in her new book, "was a library". The boy-king need not have worried: Egyptologists and others have...
- More Re Display Of The Mummy Of Tutankhamun
National Geographic The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of the pharaoh's tomb in Luxor in November (see Egypt map). "I am taking [the mummy] out to show it to the...
- Kv63 - Speculation
http://tinyurl.com/mu3k3 (dailytelegraph.news.com.au) Speculation about the contents of the unopened coffin: "It has been 84 years since Egypt's famed Valley of the Kings revealed its last great riches – the fabulous gold of Tutankhamen's tomb....
- Tutankhamen Dead Of Knee Infection
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1400519.cms"Egyptian boy Pharaoh King Tutankhamen whose death has intrigued archaeologists, historians and medical experts alike, through three millenniums, seems to have died of infection from a wound in...
- Saving Tombs
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Egypt
King Tutankhamen Revealed
The boy Pharaoh will be put in climate controlled case visible to tourists for the first time. The effects of thousands of visitor a day are taking their toll and must also be damaging his outer gilded coffin which lye's unprotected in his quartzite sarcophagus.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071009-king-tut.html
- Book Review: Tutankhamen's Curse By Joyce Tyldesley
The Guardian, UK (Review by Toby Wilkinson) Among the manifold treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb, "the only thing missing", as Joyce Tyldesley notes in her new book, "was a library". The boy-king need not have worried: Egyptologists and others have...
- More Re Display Of The Mummy Of Tutankhamun
National Geographic The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of the pharaoh's tomb in Luxor in November (see Egypt map). "I am taking [the mummy] out to show it to the...
- Kv63 - Speculation
http://tinyurl.com/mu3k3 (dailytelegraph.news.com.au) Speculation about the contents of the unopened coffin: "It has been 84 years since Egypt's famed Valley of the Kings revealed its last great riches – the fabulous gold of Tutankhamen's tomb....
- Tutankhamen Dead Of Knee Infection
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1400519.cms"Egyptian boy Pharaoh King Tutankhamen whose death has intrigued archaeologists, historians and medical experts alike, through three millenniums, seems to have died of infection from a wound in...
- Saving Tombs
...