Tut, tut: Microbial growth in pharaoh's tomb suggests burial was a rush job
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the elaborately painted walls are covered with dark brown spots that mar the face of the goddess Hathor, the silvery-coated baboons -- in fact, almost every surface. A researcher thinks those brown spots reveal something: that the young pharaoh was buried in an unusual hurry, before the walls of the tomb were even dry.