The greatest discovery of all times was King Tut's tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings. In this 3D online virtual area, you can experience that yourself. Dig up artefacts and gather points and marvel at - as well as decode - the wall paintings in the tomb to get a glimpse at the afterlife that was so important to the Ancient Egyptians.
Zoom in on King Tut's greatest treasures and explore the Valley of the Kings at the time when Carter made the world's greatest archaeological discovery ever: the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Experience life by the Nile in Ancient Egypt, gather clues to have a look at what the Egyptians envisioned the afterlife to be and dig up your own artefacts. All this is possible in King Tut Virtual.
5,398 artefacts were found inside King Tut's tomb - so many that it took Carter over 10 years to research and catalogue them all. But where can you see them now? Well, the vast majority are kept by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the best and most famous pieces on permanent display there. A smaller collection is kept by the Luxor Museum, while more still can be found criss-crossing the globe as part of touring exhibitions.
To help you sniff out as many Tut artefacts as possible, we’ve put together this handy guide to finding King Tut around the world – be it sites of relevance, key artefacts on display, or even quality replicas.
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“Carter was actually outraged by the original exhibition of these pieces, claiming breach of copyright, and demanded they be destroyed.”
Submitted by Meral Crifasi on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:31
So last week you registered and earned your 47 points, so you are well on your way. Great! From now on, things get really exciting. It's time for Virtual Quest Part 2: Dig Your Own Artefacts in the Valley of the Kings.
If you're not already up to date with Virtual Quest Part 1, there is still time to catch up. Here's what you had to do.
Virtual Quest Part 1:
Download the viewer
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Submitted by Michael Kan on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:50
Blue aliens with cat-like faces might first come to mind when one hears the word “avatar,” now that James Cameron’s latest sci-fi flick has become the top grossing movie of all time.
But the box-office hit film is just the latest medium to popularize the word “avatar,” an ancient religious term that’s taken on a new meaning in modern times.
Aside from the movie, many people are likely familiar with the word “avatar” as an expression of the self (or the alter ego) in a virtual world. Participation in video games, internet forums and Heritage Key’s own King Tut Virtual Experience can all involve using a 2-D or 3-D representation of your self.
Submitted by Jon Himoff on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 22:23
Zahi Hawass tells BusinessWeek that the touring exhibits including the King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs exhibition have netted Egypt $100 million USD since 2005. Considering that none of the major coffins or the ultimate, iconic piece the Death Mask are included in these shows (click here to see where they're hiding) it is quite an impressive yield for brand Tut and Egypt Inc. (King Tut's contracts are worth about as much as the world's most highly paid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo).
Submitted by Meral Crifasi on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 09:57
King Tut Virtual Photo Contest attracted almost 200 wonderful photos of Kig Tut Virtual. Taking good, quality, high-resolution photographs anywhere in the metaverse takes quite a bit of time, effort and creative genius, so now we have chosen the winners which receive 100$ for the most fabulous high resolution shots taken in King Tut Virtual.
Loki Popinjay, a well known metaverse photographer had so many breath taking photos that we had seriously hard time to figure out which one to be the winner. The artefacts in King Tut Virtual are very real life like and still Loki has captured the beauty of the virtual reality in the most amazing ways. The quality of his photography is in very high level.
This is the second pick from his entries . He captured the landscape by the Nile area where you can see the Amarna house in the background. The reflection of the boat on the Nile is so beautiful and the whole feeling of the landscape is very dreamy.
Heritage Key was featured in the 'Pick-up Corner' by Clione Clary, one of the (virtual) news anchors for the Japanese show VWBC. Does that mean we started a dating service for avatars and/or archaeologists? Not really! (But let us know if there's any demand for this.) 'The Pick-up Corner' is just the segment of the Virtual World Broadcasting show where she gets to introduce new - and of course, interesting - projects: us!
Forgive me my enthusiasm, but I always get overly excited when nice things are being said about King Tut Virtual, even when I don't entirely understand it. (I did pick up 'Valley of the Kings' and 'Indiana Jones', the 'totally awesome' I might have imagined.)
The first visitor numbers are in for the number of people visiting the King Tut exhibition. The Art Gallery of Ontario, which is hosting King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, announced that more than 100,000 tickets have been sold to date –That works out to at least $3.2 million in sales (Canadian currency). The exhibit has only been open for one month.
Now I should caution that tickets have been available for three months (you could buy them in advance). I should also add that it doesn’t appear as if Tutankhamun will top the 750,000 visitors it attracted in 1979. That show featured King Tut’s death mask. You can read a comparison of the two shows here.
So last week you registered and earned your 47 points, so you are well on your way. Great! From now on, things get really exciting. It's time for Virtual Quest Part 2: Dig Your Own Artefacts in the Valley of the Kings.
Blue aliens with cat-like faces might first come to mind when one hears the word “avatar,” now that James Cameron’s latest sci-fi flick has become the 
Heritage Key was featured in the 'Pick-up Corner' by Clione Clary, one of the (virtual) news anchors for the Japanese show VWBC. Does that mean we started a dating service for avatars and/or archaeologists? Not really! (But let us know if there's any demand for this.) 'The Pick-up Corner' is just the segment of the Virtual World Broadcasting show where she gets to introduce new - and of course, interesting - projects: us!
The first visitor numbers are in for the number of people visiting the King Tut exhibition. The 
