Soon people involved with the mission began dropping dead from what came to be called as 'King Tut's curse.'The narrative of the curse began as soon as Lord Carnarvon died suddenly on April 5, 1923, just five months after the tomb's opening.
“We think it’s possible, if not probable, that alabaster jars found in King Tut’s tomb contained opium as part of an ancient tradition of opiate use that we are only now beginning to understand,” said Koh ... King Tut’s tomb.
British archaeologist Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian excavators discovered the famous tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but found Tut's body had become stuck to the inside of his coffin over the centuries.
King Tut was decapitated after archaeologist Howard Carter's team removed his famous golden mask (Pictured) which was buried with the ruler 3,300 years ago ... King Tut's body was also dismembered, with ...
CAIRO. Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of KingTutankhamun's treasures — over 4,500 artefacts — was disp ....
He was mummified and buried in Luxor's Valley of the Kings inside three nested coffins, the smallest weighing 110kg, all placed within four gilded shrines like matryoshka dolls.