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An Egyptian Pharaoh in a London Townhouse

This May, during a visit to Sir John Soane's Museum in central London, I had the pleasure of receiving a private tour of the sarcophagus of Seti I, arguably the most important ancient Egyptian ...

What it was like to see King Tut's tomb just after it was opened

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...