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death mask of king tut.

King Tut's Mummified Erect Penis May Point to Ancient Religious Struggle

By Owen Jarus last updated

Ancient Egyptians
The reconstruction of KV 55, thought to be the pharaoh Akhenaten.

King Tut's father revealed in stunning facial reconstruction

By Mindy Weisberger last updated

An astonishingly lifelike facial reconstruction reveals the face of an enigmatic mummy who may have been the biological father of the renowned pharaoh Tutankhamen.

Ancient Egyptians
facial reconstruction of King Tut

In Photos: The Life and Death of King Tut

By Owen Jarus last updated

Ancient Egyptians
Tutankhamun art, All About History 122

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.

Human Behavior
The burial mask of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, shown during a museum exhibit in Munich, Germany in 2015.

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.

Ancient Egyptians
A 3D CT scan of the skull of one of the South American mummies in the new study.

'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.

Human Behavior
mummies exhibit

Photos: The Amazing Mummies of Peru and Egypt

By Christine Lunsford last updated

Ancient Egyptians
The remains of tens of cat mummies were discovered in the complex at Saqqara, Egypt.

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.

Ancient Egyptians
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.

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.

Ancient Egyptians
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.

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.

Archaeology
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