The Curse of Tutankhamun

In November 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter did what no one had managed in three thousand years — he found a pharaoh's tomb with its treasures still inside. Tutankhamun, an Egyptian king who died at just nineteen, had been sealed in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. The golden death mask, the nested coffins, thousands of artifacts glowing in lamplight — the world had never seen anything like it. But within months, the greatest discovery in archaeology had a death toll.