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A WINSFORD children’s author is marking 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by publishing a new book about the ‘boy king.’

Archaeologists working at  Abydos in southern Egypt have discovered the tomb of a previously unknown pharaoh named Woseribre Senebkay — and found the first material proof of a forgotten Abydos Dynasty from around 1650-1600 B.C.  The tomb of the previously unknown pharaoh Senebkay was discovered close to a larger royal tomb, recently identified as belonging to a king Sobekhotep, probably Sobekhotep I, circa. 1780 B.C. of the 13th Dynasty. The discovery of pharaoh Senebkays tomb is the culm...