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Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter.

The charging of the Louvre's former director in an antiquities trafficking investigation has shone a light on a vast, transnational criminal problem that remains fiendishly difficult to target.

The treasures unearthed prove the importance of the lost golden city of Tutankhamun, built 3,400 years ago

The curses, addressed to potential thieves, almost always promised the most dreadful way to die if you stole a book

Egypt displayed on Aug. 4 the gilded coffin of Tutankhamun, under restoration for the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922.

Egypt announced that the restoration of the gilded gold-plated coffin of the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun had begun for the first time. This is happening ahead of the expected opening of a new museum next year, the BTA quoted the Associated Press as saying.

Egypt has asked international police agency Interpol to track down a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artifact that was sold in London for $6 million despite fierce opposition from Cairo, government officials said.

A 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian "Boy King" Tutankhamun was auctioned off for $6 million July 4 in London despite a fierce outcry from Cairo.

The Egyptian embassy in London requested that Britain prevent the planned sale by Christie's of an ancient sculpture representing King Tutankhamun's head and return it to Egypt, Cairo said.

The legendary treasure of ancient Egypt's boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, some of which is touring the world for the first time, is shrouded in richness and mystery. At least one million people are expected to flock to a "once in a generation" exhibition, titled "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh," which opened in Paris at the weekend.