What Killed People Who Opened King Tut's Tomb?

King Tutankhamun was buried with an enormous amount of jewelry- over 100 pieces were placed on his mummy alone! It's no wonder, then, that I am still encountering pieces that I haven't seen before. This unbelievable pectoral is one of those many pieces, and it is an incredible display of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship. You can see its enormous size in the photo of it being worn by (presumably) Hussein Abdel Rassoul, and given Tutankhamun's young age and what we know of his physical stature, it p

Did you know that King Tutankhamun's tomb held multiple artifacts with otherworldly origins? One was this incredible scarab made of Libyan desert glass, which I covered in this video from last year. (The other is a dagger with a blade made of steel from a meteor!) -------- Dipping into the King Tut well to talk about this beautiful and intriguing Ra scarab pectoral, with surprising celestial origins! Originally classified as chalcedony by Howard Carter upon his 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's sp