Las Vegas; the swinging Sixties. The downtown strip is lit by a million twinkling bulbs, Dean Martin is holding court at the Sands, and a kooky archaeologist named David Barrie has dredged up a pair ...

For long before the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, theories of curses over anyone who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh abounded. One of the earliest accounts of an Egyptian mummy ...

Another season of "Ghosts," another frightfully funny Halloween episode — only this time, the ghost of a mummy comes back from the dead to raise all sorts of Halloween havoc. We begin in Egypt in 1890 ...

One hundred years ago this past February, English archaeologist Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of the legendary Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen, revealing its decrepit, yet dazzling ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Rumors of a curse have persisted since Howard Carter and others found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The deaths of Lord Carnarvon and others associated with the excavation perpetuated the speculation.

A recent display of mummies in Mexico serves as a reminder to the scientific explanation of the so-called “mummy’s curse.” Scientists warn that the curse is really a fungal concern. Research shows ...

Nearly a century ago, Lord Carnavon, who attended the opening of King Tut’s Tomb, died shortly afterwards, in April 1923. At the time, the sensational media linked his death to supernatural causes ...

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