wonderful things,” Toby Wilkinson writes in “Tutankhamun’s Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects From The Boy King’s Tomb” (Picador). Eventually found to house the mummified remains of ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

While Carter found evidence that the boy king’s tomb had been entered twice after it was sealed, whoever had broken in took no major objects. “Tutankhamun’s ignominy and insignificance saved ...

Bearers remove objects from the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in February 1923. British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter (1874 – 1939), left ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off ... details of the mask and many precious objects intended to ease the boy-king’s afterlife. His tomb isn’t right. Its design is reserved for queens ...

They are, by the archaeologist’s own admission, some of the more mundane objects pulled from Tutankhamun’s glittering tomb. Call them ... “The king was being shown as Osiris, more so than ...

These include objects that Tut would have used daily ... as long as their peers who didn’t enter. Artifacts from King Tut’s tomb toured the world in museum shows, including the worldwide ...

After the discovery, it took years to move most of the tomb’s contents to the Egyptian ... The mummified remains of King Tut himself, gold hands crossed, his head covered with a magnificent ...

King Tut’s tomb is believed to have been built more ... which weighs 243.4 pounds (110.4 kilograms). The objects that were reportedly found in the tomb included royal garments, gold sandals ...