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It's the biggest comeback tour in over 3,000 years as the curtain rises again on one of history's most famous faces.   Nearly 30 years after his American debut, King Tut returns.

"Every piece in this exhibit will tell us a story and it will capture our hearts," says Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Over twice the size of Tut one, this is the first time most of the exhibit's 114 treasures have ever left home...

[More]   Today via MSNBC News, USA, June 13, 2005.

For five years, British archaeologist Howard Carter combed the sands of the Valley of the Kings to no avail, and his financial backer, Lord Carnavon, was tired of getting no results.   Carter's time was running out.

But on Nov. 22, 1922, the relentless archaeologist finally found what he had been after - the hidden tomb of King Tutankhamun.

News of the extraordinary find circled the world; Carter appeared like a hero on all counts.

But that very day, Carter's pet canary was killed by a snake, the first in a string of bad incidents.

Lord Carnavon was dead within six months of the tomb's discovery...

[More]   ABC News, USA, June 14, 2005.

No reason the out-of-town mummy should get all the attention; Dayton has one of its own, you know.

Her name is Nesiur (pronounced with a silent "n," as in "Essy-oor"), and she's been here since 1926, making a home at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.

She was found by Herbert E. Winlock, a noted archaeologist from that era who was digging for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.   He passed the mummy to Dr. J. Morton Howell of Dayton, who at the time was the U.S. Minister to Cairo...

[More]   Dayton Daily News, USA, June 09, 2005.

The gold carpet will be rolled out in Los Angeles, hundreds of ships adorned in gold finery will cruise the waters in Fort Lauderdale, [Florida], and the crème de la crème will raise their glasses among golden masks and sparkling jewels in Chicago.

No expense will be spared, no glamorous detail overlooked, as four museums lay out the royal treatment for a long-awaited visitor: King Tut...

[More]   ABC News, USA, June 14, 2005.

cf. King Tut Exhibition Premieres at LACMA; Premiere Party: “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs”, Business Wire, USA, June 13, 2005.