Egypt, King Tut and British Museum
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Grand Egyptian Museum honors the 12-year-old Egyptian boy who helped reveal Tutankhamun’s tomb, says his son, Nubi Abdel-Rasoul.
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Son of Original Finder Says His Father, Not Carter, Discovered King Tut’s Tomb and Its Secrets
Rasoul, was 12 when he pointed British archaeologist Howard Carter to a tilted stone on Luxor’s West Bank in Nov 1922.
For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director told NBC News.
The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and is finally set to formally open in November, Maira Butt writes
The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the west bank of the Nile River in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor.
According to research published in Nature's npj Heritage Science journal, Professor Sayed Hemeda of Cairo University's Department of Preservation of Architectural Heritage has identified structural integrity issues that place the tomb at unprecedented risk.
Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have long sought to locate her tomb, which she shared with her lover, Mark Antony,