For more than 3,000 years they lay unseen beneath the Egyptian sands:
gleaming treasures of gold and semi-precious jewels; statues and chests of
breathtaking artistry; magical amulets and articles of ancient life; the
mummified body of a young pharaoh.
When the British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered the remarkably
preserved tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, he created a worldwide sensation.
When the boy king's riches toured the world in 1977, the term "blockbuster
exhibition" was born. Now a new exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age
of the Pharaohs, offers visitors a chance to see fabulous new treasures and
to enter the world that gives them meaning: 250 years that marked the
pinnacle of ancient Egypt's culture, wealth, and imperial power.
As those who saw the earlier exhibition can attest, coming face-to-face
with the treasures of King Tut is an encounter not soon forgotten. Visitors
to the new exhibition, twice the size of the 1977 exhibition, will have an
even broader and deeper experience. They'll see more than 130 ancient
artefacts — of gold and silver, jewels and semi-precious stones,
alabaster and gilded wood — excavated from the tomb of Tutankhamun and
other royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. They'll learn about life and
death in ancient Egypt, and the intimate relationship between the two. And
they'll discover what the latest technologies are revealing about how the
young king may have died...
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