The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered ... Around the time excavators opened the tomb, Cairo reportedly suffered a bizarre power outage and a freak sandstorm ...

But Hollywood didn't invent the curse concept. The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King ... the American University in Cairo and a National Geographic ...

Shortly after the discovery of his tomb, the "Curse of Tutankhamun" became a reliable headline for the international press. And the facts certainly appeared alarming: within 10 years of the tomb ...

A team of scientists from Egypt's National Research Centre and Cairo University, working with two German DNA experts, examined tissue samples from several royal mummies, including Tutankhamun himself.

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried ... including Tutankhamun's mummy and death mask. Tutankhamun died aged ...