What was that noise? A footstep on the stair? Your bedroom window creaking open? No, it was just the memory of the ghost story you heard in Sudley's Library. Wasn't it...? What's that shadow dancing ...

Tutankhamun was born over 3300 years ago into a family at the apex of Ancient Egyptian society. He ruled for no more than a decade, much of that time through regents who governed for the ‘boy king’.

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The Codex Fejervary Mayer was bought by Joseph Mayer, the Liverpool goldsmith and antiquarian in 1855. It had previously been in the collection of the Hungarian collector Gabriel Fejéváry. In 1867 ...