Word: tutankhamun
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...rings that make their bearers invisible and winged serpents that patrol remote mountain passes. But recent excavations in western Egypt by a team of Italian archaeologists may have unearthed traces of this long-lost army, entombed in the desert for some 2,500 years. (See TIME's photo-essay "Tutankhamun: The Boy King...
...TIME's photos of Tutankhamun: the Boy King...
...ANNOUNCED. RESULTS of a computer tomographic (C.T.) scan of the remains of Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun, which appear to rule out foul play in his early death; in Cairo. The C.T. scan, for which Tut's body was removed from its sarcophagus for the first time since its discovery in 1922, revealed no sign of head wounds, ending speculation that a blow to the head had ended the 19-year-old King's brief reign circa 1352 B.C. "We don't know how the King died, but we are sure it was not murder," said Egyptian antiquities expert Zahi Hawass...
...most famous child potentate of all time - Egypt's young pharaoh, Tutankhamun - but his tomb's magnificent treasures have been shown in Europe only three times since the grave's discovery in 1922. After the last exhibit, in 1981, the Egyptian government barred the artifacts from leaving the country. Now, after six years of negotiations with the Egyptian authorities, the Museum of Ancient Art in Basel, Switzerland, will offer a rare glimpse at the stunning artifacts buried with King Tut, who ruled from 1333 B.C. to 1323 B.C. - until his death at 18. The museum's director, Peter Blome, says...
...British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun, a little-known pharaoh who died...