King Tut

Perhaps the most famous ancient Egyptian pharaoh, King Tut's face has been made visible to the public for the first time, inside his climate-controlled tomb in Luxor, Egypt. Read more about the unveiling in King Tut's face unveiled to world. If you're at Luxor and take a photo of the young pharaoh's face that you're willing to have put up here, please let me know.

When Howard Carter found the tomb of King Tut in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, 85 years ago, it was filled with more than 30,000 ancient objects, many of them gold. British Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon financed Carter. Soon after Carnarvon visited the tomb he died, suddenly and mysteriously, fueling the story of a mummy's curse.
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