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Featured The photo shows an open court with a hanging obelisk in the centre, flanked by colonnades leading to the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum

Grand Egyptian Museum Atrium and Immersive Tutankhamun: Review

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The courtyard of the Grand Egyptian Museum, with the entrance to the left and the hanging obelisk of Ramses II to the right. The route from the obelisk to the entrance is flanked by colonnades and shallow lakes. (Author photo) The colossus of Ramses II, in position in the atrium of the GEM. (Author photo). …

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Exhibition Review: ‘Tutankhamun the Boy: Growing up in ancient Egypt’ at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology

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A review of the Petrie Museum's new exhibition 'Tutankhamun the Boy'.

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Foreshadowing is not just for movies: A Turin papyrus and the shrines of Tutankhamun

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If this was in a movie you wouldn't believe it! Five years before the discovery of Tutankhamun, Carter's work on a plan of the tomb of Ramesses IV, revealed inexplicable features that he would one day be able to answer.

Essex’s Tutankhamun? Learning from seemingly incongruous comparisons.

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What do we learn from comparing an Anglo-Saxon burial in Prittlewell with Egypt's famous Tutankhamun?

Tutankhamun, Nefertiti and all that jazz: What have we learned?

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Almost a year since the media discovered Reeves' theory that Tutankhamun's tomb contained Nefertiti, what have we learned?