Today is: King Tut Day

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A reproduction of King Tut's funeral mask that's part of an upcoming exhbit, Tutankhamun: Return of the King Exhibition, at IMAG in Fort Myers.
A reproduction of King Tut's funeral mask that's part of an upcoming exhbit, Tutankhamun: Return of the King Exhibition, at IMAG in Fort Myers.
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King Tut Day celebrates the day that King Tut's tomb was discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter, on November 4, 1922. Carter had first arrived in Egypt in 1891, but didn't start an in-depth search for King Tut's tomb until after World War I. One reason King Tut's tomb hadn't yet been found was because the steps to it had been covered and hidden with debris from the close-by tomb of Ramses VI. After discovering Tut's tomb, Carter and another archaeologist, Lord Carnarvon, entered its interior chambers on November 26, 1922, to find it remarkably intact. The four-room tomb was combed by Carter, who found thousands of objects, including a stone sarcophagus that contained three coffins inside of each other, with King Tut's mummy on the inside of the last coffin — a coffin made of gold.

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