Dance Like An Egyptian
January 3, 1924 - Discovery of King Tut
Of all the treasure of the Nile, perhaps the most valuable of all was discovered on this day in 1924. Archaeologist Howard Carter and his expedition team found the mummified remains of King Nebkheperure Tutankhamen encased in a solid gold sarcophagus or coffin. Even more miraculously, Tut's remains were still fully intact after more than three thousand years! King Tut's tomb, originally discovered two years earlier in 1922, was every archaeologist's dream, divided into four rooms filled with priceless artifacts and treasures. It was two years before Carter and his crew stumbled across the burial room which contained Tutankhamen's sarcophagus and two other coffins.
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