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British professor-egyptologists Joanne Fletcher has put forward a brand new hypothesis about the origin of the famous golden mask of Tutankhamun. She included the theory in her new book “Valley of the Kings: The Golden Age of Egypt”. Despite a number of well-founded arguments, Egyptian scientists were quick to refute the bold assumption.
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In 1922, Howard Carter unearthed a burial in the Valley of the Kings, containing many unique objects of ancient Egyptian…
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Researchers have analyzed a replica of the camp bed used by Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Experts have concluded that this is the…
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Tutankhamun’s subjects regarded him partly as a god and partly as a man. In 1323 BC, his death put an…
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A British archaeologist, Howard Crater, discovered King Tut’s tomb back in 1922. The pharaoh Tutankhamun died in 1323 BC at…
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King Tutankhamun controlled and ruled Egypt as the youngest pharaoh for over ten years until his death at age 19…
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The mystery surrounding the piece of yellow glass in the shape of a scarab that occupies the center of the…
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Not that aliens did it, but the intricate dagger, buried with King Tut was found to have been made using…
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A box, containing items packed and sealed by Howard Carter the British archaeologist who entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in…
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He is probably one of the most famous Pharaohs to ever rule over ancient Egypt, and the discovery of his…
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Following a decade-long restoration process, the tomb of one of ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaohs; King Tutankhamun, has finally been…
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The VLT has captured the most detailed images to date of the unusual trinary asteroid system Kleopatra, whose main body…
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Mexican archaeologists reported incredible discoveries made during excavations of the Aztec city of Tlatelolco. They discovered 36 burials, six of…
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Data from the Japanese interplanetary station Hayabusa2 indicate that fine-grained dust may exist on the asteroid Ryugu, which is part…
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Astronomers have figured out the properties of the unusual brown dwarf WISE 1534-1043, nicknamed “The Accident.” It turned out to…
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Paleogeneticists isolated DNA from the remains of a young woman who died in South Sulawesi about 7.3-7.2 thousand years ago and found that her genome contains fewer genes from Denisovans than most modern Australian Aborigines and Papuans. In addition, it belongs to a previously undescribed population of hunter-gatherers, whose ancestors may have come to Sulawesi before the Papuans, Australian, and Tasmanian aborigines.
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Astronomers have been able to resolve the solar sodium paradox, which has existed for over 20 years. They managed to…
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During World War II, Nazi scientists tried to create a nuclear bomb using two-inch uranium cubes as fuel. It is…
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The eROSITA X-ray telescope, installed onboard the Spektr-RG observatory, has found a new type Ia galactic supernova remnant. The explosion…
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Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and Smithsonian Institutions (CfA) present new calculations showing that the Oort Cloud…
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In recent years, China has risen to become one of the great powers in cosmonautics. They sent a mission to…
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A new study of the Martian surface has shown that it was snowing on the Red Planet about a million…
