Grand Egyptian Museum, King Tut
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For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director told NBC News.
Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, aged eight or nine, and restored the traditional Egyptian polytheistic religion Ancient Egypt is most is known for. But, he was dead and buried by the time he was 18.
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a series of tombs dating from about 1,800 to 4,800 years ago, some of which contain colorful mummy masks and even the childlike statue of the god of silence, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
One of the notes records absences from work at the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings in ancient Thebes. Gallery technician Tash Lawson inspects a 2,000-year-old gilded Egyptian coffin mask at the Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition (Joe Giddens/ PA ...