Word: tutankhamen
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...Doing the Old King Tut King Tutankhamen [May 23] has fascinated people since the uncovering of his magnificent tomb more than 82 years ago, and now modern technology has allowed us to put a virtual face on the legendary Pharaoh. In the late 1970s, an exhibition of artifacts from his tomb toured U.S. museums. We described the show's appeal?and the resulting crass commercialization?in an Oct. 3, 1977, report...
...Washington, D.C., where King Tutankhamen began his American reign last December, the wait to get in to see his treasures averaged five hours. In Chicago, 2,000 lined up opening day to marvel at the glittering objects found in the tomb of the boy pharaoh who lived in the 14th century B.C. Now it is New Orleans' turn, and ... some of that old Mardi Gras madness has rubbed off on the Egyptian god-king. For starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent...
...fearsome mummy that spawned a legendary curse and a generation of horror movies turns out to have been a slender, buck-toothed teenager who probably died after a serious accident. A team of Egyptian scientists recently put King Tutankhamen through a medical scanner, generating 1,700 highly detailed three-dimensional images of the boy king's remains. Using an exact model of Tut's skull, three forensic teams then reconstructed the face behind the famous golden mask. The process is documented in a National Geographic Channel special, King Tut's Final Secrets, airing May 29. The images also debunk...
Sources: National Geographic; Egypt Supreme Council of Antiquities; The Tomb of Tutankhamen, by Howard Carter; Guide to the Valley of the Kings, by Alberto Siliotti
...handfuls of nails, decapitated the bomber and injured several foreign tourists and Egyptian passersby. The police believe that the symbol-rich site of Yassin's attack - a central square facing Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen and a skyscraper hotel named for Egypt's most powerful ancient pharaoh, Ramses - was chosen at random...