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![Tutankhamun art, All About History 122](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2rqMAbCh9qpFtrpMQGqgo9-320-80.jpg)
The real life of Tutankhamun uncovered in All About History 122
By Jonathan Gordon published
Inside All About History 122: Discover what Tutankhamun, boy king of Egypt, was really like.
![The burial mask of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, shown during a museum exhibit in Munich, Germany in 2015.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Mbxewitd8t7HHz2cU6Siq6-320-80.jpg)
What is the ancient Egyptian 'mummy's curse'?
By Owen Jarus last updated
Here's how the idea of a "mummy's curse" got started.
![A 3D CT scan of the skull of one of the South American mummies in the new study.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FZWGbRXLwDezyrvkYqRJtH-320-80.jpeg)
'Massive trauma' found on 1,000-year-old South American mummies
By Patrick Pester published
South American mummies were likely brutally murdered 1,000 years ago, and the evidence is still preserved today, a new study finds.
![The remains of tens of cat mummies were discovered in the complex at Saqqara, Egypt.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XJLmmiKX3n9KRJvUP6FnHK-320-80.jpg)
Tens of Cat Mummies and 100 Cat Statues Found Near Ancient Egyptian Pyramid
By Owen Jarus last updated
Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people.
![Sarcophagi found in a cache dating to the Egyptian Late Period (around the fifth century BC). In the photo we can make out about 30 sarcophaguses laid out in four rows. They are underneath a massive tend are surround by a huge crowd of people taking photos.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SQhcZgRqEV7iKWqVnyHs2h-320-80.jpg)
Hundreds of ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, cat mummies and gold-leafed statues unearthed at necropolis
By Tom Metcalfe last updated
Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo.
![A detail from a Book of the Dead segment, housed at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy. The scenes on this version of the book are similar to those seen on the fragments in New Zealand and Los Angeles.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NaorHJxqgoaCkMUd5gSSjg-320-80.jpg)
Book of the Dead fragments, half a world apart, are pieced together
By Laura Geggel last updated
Historians found that a Book of the Dead segment from New Zealand matched another in Los Angeles.
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