Staff at the Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester are alarmed at the news that some of the treasures of Tutankhamun have been stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Early reports during the Egyptian unrest, suggesting that some of the treasures of Tutankhamun in the Museum had been damaged by intruders, had been rejected by Zahi [...]
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Museum replicas of the two damaged statues are on view at The Tutankhamun Exhibition, Dorchester.
Alarming video and still footage on Flickr, Twitter and blogs show that some of the most famous treasures of Tutankhamun have been damaged. Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and inflicted significant damage to the famous standing gilt figure [...]
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Ever since the pharaoh Tutankhamun was discovered in his tomb in 1922 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter debate has raged as to his real identity. In recent years the advance in DNA profiling has given hope that Tut’s family connections could possibly be revealed.
The results of important DNA tests carried out in Egypt [...]
Staff at the Tutankhamun Exhibition showing in Dorchester are eagerly awaiting the results of a momentous test carried out on the mummy of Tutankhamun. The results to be announced at a press conference in Cairo on Wednesday 17th February may change our knowledge of this world famous pharaoh by revealing who Tutankhamun really was.
Ever since [...]
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Two foetuses were discovered by Howard Carter in the Tutankhamun’s Tomb back in 1922. Ever since that, stored at the Faculty of Medicine in Cairo University, the two still-born babies have remained an apple of discord for scientists.It is debated whether they were Tutankhamun’s own children, whether they were twins (the difference in sizes suggested [...]
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The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, by Howard Carter, in 1922 has been described as the world’s greatest discovery of ancient treasure. Now children visiting the internationally renowned Tutankhamun Exhibition can go on their own Treasure Hunt over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, with the chance of winning ‘treasure’ for [...]
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We are happy to announce that The Tutankhamun Exhibition web-site has launched a new section of free greeting cards. All the designs for e-cards are taken from the original postcards of The Tutankhamun’s Treasure Store. Nine beautiful designs of free greeting cards will be available for our visitors to enjoy and share. Please click here if [...]
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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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