As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands.

The deadly fungus credited with killing the archaeologists that opened the tomb of King Tut might become a treatment for cancer ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, genetically modified bacteria that turn plastic into Tylenol and more.

But the star of the museum remains King Tut's collection of more than 5,000 objects -- many to be displayed together for the ...

When King Tut's tomb was opened, those involved in the discovery started 'mysteriously' dying. Is the Curse of the Pharaohs real, or can it be explained in another way? Science has tried to ...

‘Dinner With King Tut’ Review: The Taste of Ancient Egypt The nitty-gritty of life in previous human eras can’t always be accessed by textbook study.

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations, by Sam Kean In classrooms and academic journals, archaeologists have ...

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations, by Sam Kean In classrooms and academic journals, archaeologists have ...

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