Bodices and bandages as King Tut drama turns up the soap

By Michael Idato
Updated October 29 2016 - 1:14am, first published October 28 2016 - 11:45pm
Sam Neill (left) as Lord Carnarvon and Max Irons as Howard Carter in <i>Tutankhamun</i>. Photo: Supplied
Sam Neill (left) as Lord Carnarvon and Max Irons as Howard Carter in <i>Tutankhamun</i>. Photo: Supplied

There is something mystical about the legacy of Egypt's King Tut.  Even today, as X-ray technology overtakes the toothbrush as the archaeologist's tool of choice, and decades after "King Tut's Curse" has been debunked, it still has a strange hold on the imagination.

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