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 ...

LONDON -- Don't sweat the curse of the mummy. Those who disturbed Tutankhamun's tomb died all right, but no sooner than those who kept their distance, according to a study published in the British ...

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 explain ...

The story of a mummy's curse has been told dozens of times for every conceivable audience, but other than perhaps the original Universal Monster, no on-screen rendition is more definitive than Stephen ...

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 ...

Mummies have been a long-time favorite Halloween costume option– since toilet paper and gauze can do a bang-up job on a budget. Plus, the iconic legend of King Tut's Curse only adds to the fright ...

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 ...

You don't need to be an explorer or an adventurer or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter to appreciate the charms of The Mummy. "I loved being part of a movie that we didn't know if it was an action, ...

The London Times started it all – calling the murders the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. I accused the tabloid of capitalizing on the superstitions of the populace. Yet, three men were dead, with ...

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June 14, 2005 — -- For five years, British archaeologist Howard Carter combed the sands of the Valley of the Kings to no avail, and his financial backer, Lord Carnavon, was tired of getting no ...