Browsing All posts tagged under »tutankhamun«

King Tut’s detachable penis

June 29, 2010

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Note: This is the internet. I’m aware what gets hits. And yes, this is semi-tabloidisation of the blog (the title especially) but it’s backed up by actual, interesting scholarship. And it’s King Tutankhamun – we all have an interest in Egypt. There’s a theory being forwarded by Jo Marchant at New Scientist‘s blog that King […]

Hubris: Horemheb’s downfall

June 17, 2010

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Everybody knows the story of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled as Pharoah of Egypt for ten years from 1333-1323BC. What isn’t known is the story of one of his military advisors, Horemheb, who rose from being a common-born man to the young pharoah’s right-hand man – and eventually became pharoah himself. When the boy […]