Dr. Zahi Hawass, the country's former antiquities minister, and his team discovered the mummy, which was covered in gold leaf, inside a large ... "group of Old Kingdom tombs," which included ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a ... Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. When Howard Carter opened a small hole to peer ...

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, it’s rumored that ... us a better and more respectful look at what lies inside a sarcophagus. What was known for sure is that this mummy was ...