Mysterious Brown Spots on King Tut's Tomb Are 'Dead'
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | March 28, 2018 01:12pm ET
Mysterious Brown Spots on King Tut's Tomb Are 'Dead'
Scientists found that the brown spots on the tomb's wall paintings likely came from a microbe that is now dead.
Credit: Getty Conservation Institute
Conservators have nearly completed work at the tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt, and they have some good news: The wall paintings are stable, and mysterious brown spots found on the ancient artwork are not growing larger as previously feared.
First discovered in 1922 by the British Egyptologist Howard Carter, Tut's tomb became the most famous in Egypt because of its pristine condition. Unlike many of the other royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, near the ancient capital in Luxor, Tutankhamun's burial chamber had evaded treasure-seeking looters for more than 3,000 years.
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