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	<title>King Tutankhamun Ancient Egyptian Blog</title>
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	<description>The Tutankhamun Exhibition Dorchester, now in its 21st year, is displaying, amongst other wonderful facsimiles from the tomb, the world famous Gold Death Mask, the Golden Throne and Tutankhamun’s mummy.</description>
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		<title>Tutankhamun Treasures stolen from the Egyptian Museum Cairo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2011/02/14/tutankhamun-treasures-stolen-from-the-egyptian-museum-cairo/</link>
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		<title>Statues of Tutankhamun damaged at the Cairo Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2011/02/02/statues-of-tutankhamun-damaged-at-the-cairo-museum/</link>
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		<title>DNA identifies Tutankhamun&#8217;s parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s family connections could possibly be revealed.
The results of important DNA tests carried out in Egypt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2010/02/17/dna-identifies-tutankhamuns-parents/</link>
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		<title>Will the real Tutankhamun finally make himself known?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2010/02/16/will-the-real-tutankhamun-make-himself-known/</link>
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		<title>Secrets of Mummy Revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Palaeoradiology using X-rays, CT and MRI scans is being harnessed to study the skeletons and mummies of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs. The science should help to provide long sort answers to questions such as whether Tutankhamun was murdered and did Rhameses II die of spine disease.
The science has already shown that in fact Rhameses II did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2009/07/17/secrets-mummy-revealed/</link>
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		<title>Tutankhamun was a Father</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s own children, whether they were twins (the difference in sizes suggested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2008/09/02/tutankhamun-was-a-father/</link>
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		<title>Tutankhamun’s Treasure Hunt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2008/05/13/tutankhamun-treasure-hunt/</link>
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		<title>Christine el-Mahdy Has Died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The director and staff of the Tutankhamun Exhibition were very saddened to hear the news of the death of Christine el -Mahdy (nee Hobson). Christine was a passionate free thinking Egyptologist who has done much to bring the wonders and mystery of ancient Egypt to many, who, without her enthusiasm would never had experienced it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2008/02/15/christine-el-mahdy-has-died/</link>
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		<title>Free Greeting Cards Available On Tutankhamun Web-site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Treasure Store. Nine beautiful designs of free greeting cards will be available for our visitors to enjoy and share. Please click here if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2007/12/13/free-greeting-cards-available-on-tutankhamun-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Pharaoh&#8217;s Fortune Scratchcard Launched At The Tutankhamun Exhibition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Queen Cleopatra paid a visit to Dorchester to help launch a new National Lottery scratchcard &#8211; Pharaoh&#8217;s Fortune. Cleopatra obviously had some nostalgic moments in the town&#8217;s famous Tutankhamun Exhibition as she launched the freshly printed scratchcard.
Tim Batty, the manager of The Tutankhamun Exhibition, said:
&#8220;We often get used as a backdrop for a range of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tutankhamunexhibition.com/tutankhamun-blog/2007/11/29/pharaohs-fortune-scratchcard-launched-at-the-tutankhamun-exhibition/</link>
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