The Only Tomb in the World Where You Can Sit With a Mummy. Could You Survive It?
Could you sit alone in the dark with a three-thousand-year-old mummy?
Not metaphorically. Not in a museum with lighting and other tourists and a gift shop twenty metres away.
Actually alone. After dark. In the tomb. In the silence that has been there since before your civilisation existed.
Because that is what this is.
Tutankhamun’s mummy lies in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Not a replica. Not a reconstruction. Him – the real mummified body of an actual king, in the actual tomb where Howard Carter broke the seal in 1922 and changed history.
I can put you in that room. After dark.
The question most people ask me is: what does it cost?
That’s the wrong question.
The right question is the one you’re probably already asking yourself right now – the one that’s somewhere between excitement and something colder.
Could I actually do it?
Sit in silence, in the dark, in a sealed space underground, with a body that died three thousand years ago and has never fully left – because if you’ve read anything about this tomb, you know that the story of what happens in this space doesn’t end with Howard Carter.
Over the years I have had many strange, out-of-the-ordinary experiences in Egypt and some, with the benefit of hindsight, make me ask myself, “Where was your brain?” Some experiences and events I would not repeat, either for myself or anyone requesting them, because they simply were not safe. In my innocence, I was unaware of any danger. They say “innocence protects” and I tend to believe that now. My own personal and unexpected experience in King Tutankhamun’s tomb was not one of those, but it was definitely unexpected, and I wish I had the presence of mind to ask some questions at the time.
There are a few more things you need to know – how to get access after dark and why this tomb will close permanently at some stage.
But if you just want to go for it – and book it now, or ask me any questions – drop me an email at maraegypt@gmail.com.
Last updated on 01/08/2026 by Marie Vaughan