Ethiopia has started reerecting its famed Axum obelisk 30 months after it returned to the country from Italy, where it stayed for 70 years, a UN expert said Wednesday.

The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert.

Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt's largest stone monuments to the Nile River.

Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago.

It's the world's most successful touring exhibition, but as the Tutankhamun blockbuster moves across the Atlantic to Britain, has a theme park mentality fatally diminished one of the wonders of the world?

The face of the ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun has been shown to the public for the first time since his tomb was discovered 85 years ago. King Tut's mummy has been moved into a special display case where it will be better protected from dust and the elements.
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Um den altägyptischen Gottkönig Tutanchamun ranken sich viele Hypothesen und Legenden. Seit der Entdeckung seines Grabes macht die Geschichte vom Fluch des Pharao die Runde: Alle, die mit der Mumie in Berührung kommen, fallen ihr zum Opfer. Erst jetzt haben Forscher neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen – Opfer eines Mordes wurde Tutanchamun wohl nicht.

Last week, the Royal Ontario Museum performed a CT scan at a University of Western Ontario lab on one of the four adult mummies which have been in its collection nearly 100 years.

Online review of Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle, (2006) The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo

Weighing the evidence for and dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in early Egypt.