LONDON: Treasures from the tomb of teenage Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun will be at the heart of a huge exhibition which opens in London on November 15, organizers said Monday.
Some 130 items which are up to 3,500 years old will be on show at Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs , including the king s gold crown and a coffinette which contained his mummified internal organs.
Most of the exhibits, 50 of which come from the king s tomb, did not feature in the record-breaking show which attracted eight million visitors in the United States and 1.7 million in Britain in the early 1970s.
But his famous death mask, which was on show last time around, is now considered too fragile to be moved and will not leave the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The exhibition will be the first to be staged at the O2 venue on the banks of the River Thames in south-east London, formerly known as the Millennium Dome.
Tutankhamun s tomb was discovered at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, in 1922 by Britons Howard Carter and Lord George Carnarvon.
