LONDON: The lid was lifted Tuesday on a long-awaited new exhibition in London of treasures from the tomb of teenage Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Some 130 items, which are up to 3,500 years old, are on show at Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs, including the boy king s gold crown and a coffinette which contained his mummified internal organs.
Most of the exhibits, 50 of which come from his 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 has not left 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 southeast London, formerly known as the Millennium Dome.
Tutankhamun s tomb was discovered at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, in 1922 by Britons Howard Carter and Lord George Carnarvon.
The true face of Ancient Egypt s boy king was revealed last week to the public for the first time since he died more than 3,000 years ago.
The pharaoh s mummy was moved from its ornate sarcophagus in the tomb where its 1922 discovery caused an international sensation to a nearby climate-controlled case where experts say it will be better preserved.
