Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special ...

The mystery of King Tutankhamun's death may finally have been solved after groundbreaking DNA evidence was found.

Researchers have continuously conducted examinations of King Tut’s tomb, mummy, and mask ... [they found] the face is made of completely different gold to the rest.” Essentially, the mask ...

Kenneth Garrett, June 2005 National Geographic magazine VISCERA COFFIN Tutankhamun possessed ... and placed near the thighs of the mummy to allow the golden face mask to be put into place.

This produced a mummy that could survive for thousands of years but ... So, to make his face appear more lifelike, substances such as resin were pushed under the skin of Tutankhamun’s face to plump it ...

Rumors of a curse have persisted since Howard Carter and others found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 ... Rumors continued to swirl of a mummy curse that Carter had unleashed, especially when people ...

These reports inspired a Hollywood film, The Mummy in 1932. Image caption, In the U.S the name Tutankhamun was shortened to King Tut and inspired Egyptian-themed music and dances. There were two ...

But Hollywood didn't invent the curse concept. The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor ...

Initially, researchers believed the mummy was less than 2,000 years old, but radiocarbon dating conducted in 1997 revealed that the body had actually been resting in the cave for 10,700 years ...