This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mummies capture our imaginations and our hearts. Full of secrets and magic, they were once people who lived and ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King ... curse of Tut's tomb? A popular belief holds that a curse would befall the disturber of any mummy predated ...

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 ... His tomb instead of tears, Was full of souvenirs.' ...

Howard Carter, on his first peek into King Tut's tomb When I was about 12 years old, my father gave me a book he'd just finished called Gods, Graves, and Scholars. It retold the great stories of ...

Pharaoh 'nuff - the mummy model has a reserve price of £300. Bidders by phone welcome A life-sized model of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus that ... replica featured in the Tut'22: The Life of ...

Mummification was used to preserve the body ... tomb since Tutankhamun's. The site, dubbed KV 63, was found only about 50 feet (15 meters) from the walls of Tut's resting place. KV 63 had no mummy ...

Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill ...

British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was ... the disturber of any mummy predated Tut's discovery, according to ...

what the origin of the legendary curse of Tut's tomb is. Tutankhamun, popularly referred to as "King Tut" today, ruled from about 1332 B.C. until his death in about 1323 B.C. He ascended to the throne ...