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As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...
He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...
In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...
The highly toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus, known for its yellow spores and associated with legends like the curse of ...
Scientists think they've discovered the reason behind the reputed "curse" - and it could be a gamechanger in the fight ...
These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.
A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...
A mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...
King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with a collection of thousands of priceless artifacts — some of which experts now believe were previously overlooked.
Researchers have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a toxic fungus previously associated with the "curse of the pharaohs," ...
Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive mentions them – Hussein Abu Awad, Hussein Ahmed Said, Ahmed Gerigar and Gad Hassan – and displays, as its centrepiece, ...
A team of researchers have created a 3D reconstruction that reveals the face of Egyptian King Tutankhamun. In 1922, British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the almost ...