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The Mysteries of King Tutankhamun

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Ancient Egypt, is a very exciting and a rather mysterious period in human history. The concept of mummies and the extremely fascinating architecture, has lured us into excavating a world that existed a very long time before ours. When I started reading about the history of Egyptian tombs and mummies, I came across a very interesting, and now popular, Egyptian Pharaoh – King Tutankhamun or simply, King Tut.

It was not as much his life story, as the dazzling objects and artifacts that were discovered in his tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, that piqued interest in the life of King Tut.

Tutankhamun ascended the throne when he was barely 8-years-old, and died, heir-less, at the age of 19.

The discovery of his tomb lifted the veil off the centuries old Ancient Egyptian dynasties, and helped answer several questions about the royal dynasties of the time.

This was the life of King Tutankhamun – Egypt’s young boy King…

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UNHEARD: THE MISSING PAGES OF HISTORY – SANGHA TENZIN: The 500-year-old Mummified Monk

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What if I told you that Mummies don’t just exist in Egypt, but also in India? What if I told you that these kind of Mummies are unlike the ones that are found in Egypt, and are one-of-a-kind?
In the small, remote village of ‘Gue’ in Himachal Pradesh, lies yet another piece of undiscovered history. A 15th century Buddhist monk, who underwent a very baffling and obscure method of Mummification.
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