As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

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From gilded coffins to golden amulets, many of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s items have not undergone restoration since their 1922 discovery.

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Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

Analysis - In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Years later, the Egyptian conservator found himself gently brushing centuries-old dust off one of Tut's gilded ceremonial shrines -- a piece he had only seen in textbooks. "I studied archaeology ...

Back to homepage / Live news Egyptian conservators give King Tut's treasures new glow. Cairo (AFP) – As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs ...