Queen Cleopatra paid a visit to Dorchester to help launch a new National Lottery scratchcard – Pharaoh’s Fortune. Cleopatra obviously had some nostalgic moments in the town’s famous Tutankhamun Exhibition as she launched the freshly printed scratchcard.
Tim Batty, the manager of The Tutankhamun Exhibition, said:
“We often get used as a backdrop for a range of [...]

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2007 marks the 85th anniversary of the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter.
The Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb – November – 1922
At the beginning of November 1922, Howard Carter was on the threshold of the world’s most spectacular archaeological find – the Tomb of Tutankhamun. On the [...]

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Recently discoveries on Tutankhamun seem to be announced every few months. In the last year archaeologists have carried out a CT scan on Tutankhamun’s mummy and now believe they have solved the mystery surrounding his death. Further discoveries of objects left behind in the Tutankhamun’s tomb by the discoverer Howard Carter, have been made by [...]

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