This discovery of the boy king fascinated the world

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

In today’s newsletter, we explore the accidental discovery of the boy king, see the Wales of Ryan Reynolds, find a steady food source for storks … and take the court for America’s fastest-growing sport.

PHOTOGRAPH BY HARRY BURTON

He sold watercolors to tourists on the Nile. His patron was an English nobleman with a love for ancient Egypt.

After the two labored for five years, a chance discovery led them to unearth the treasure-laden tomb of a legendary boy king, sealed for more than 3,000 years. In the two centuries since, Tutankhamun—King Tut—has fascinated the world (above, his golden effigy).

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From Tut to Ramses: A 3,200-year-old statue of Ramses the Great dominates the atrium of the new Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo. The billion-dollar museum brings together for the first time nearly all 5,000-plus artifacts from Tut’s tomb. Read more.

Mummy Mia!
– See Tut’s enduring power as never before
– Tut’s 5,000 treasures, by the numbers
– Find the many treasures hidden in Tut’s mummy
– Just who was Tut?
– The hole where Tut’s heart used to be
– Egypt’s audacious plan to build a capital in the desert

OTHER STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

Our bodies are unique. Our cancers are too. (Pictured above, a woman performs a breast self-examination to check for changes in the tissue. Self-examination accounts for about 65 percent of breast cancer discoveries.)

The Welsh town that Ryan Reynolds made famous

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One of Christianity’s earliest communities took hold and flourished—in Egypt

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100 years ago this month: When fascism strong-armed its way to run Italy—and wrecked the country

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

PHOTOGRAPH BY MATT ROURKE, AP/SHUTTERSTOCK

They’re coming: At the epicenter of an invasion in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the spotted lanternfly (pictured above) is thriving: swarms fill the sky like a biblical plague while forests are blanketed in sticky discharge and mold. As the bug spreads with surprising speed, researchers are trying all types of mass-killing techniques on the invasive insect to save native wildlife—and protect wine grapes and beer hops from their straw-like jaws.

MAP OF THE INFESTATION

PHOTO OF THE DAY

PHOTOGRAPH BY @JASPERDOEST

Steady dining: Open landfills may be ugly, but they’ve also changed migratory patterns for birds like the white stork. The stork used to be a wholly migratory bird, breeding in Europe and migrating come winter to Africa. But resident stork populations have emerged on the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to year-round landfill food supply. (Nat Geo Explorer Jasper Doest photographed this stork at a landfill in Portugal.)

LANDFILL LIVING

LAST GLIMPSE

PHOTOGRAPH BY KENDRICK BRINSON

Inside America’s fastest growing sport: Was it named after the dog Pickles? Or the mishmash boat in crew where leftover oarsmen form a “pickle boat”? In either case, pickleball—invented in 1965 by a group of bored children—is sweeping the country, with everyone from septuagenarians to prison inmates grabbing a paddle. (Pictured above, pickleball players in Arizona.)

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Today’s newsletter was edited and curated by Sydney Combs, Jen Tse, and David Beard. Readers, have you ever played pickleball? Like it? Let us know!

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This discovery of the boy king fascinated the world

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