Tutankhamun returns to rule London

CURATORS lifted the lid yesterday on a long-awaited London exhibition of treasures from the tomb of teenage Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, more than 30 years after he first cast his spell in Britain.

A total of 130 items are on show in Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs, including the boy king’s gold crown and a coffinette that contained his mummified internal organs. Some of the artefacts are up to 3,500 years old.

The exhibition is bigger than the one which caught the public imagination back in 1972 and features some objects from his family collection, as well as those belonging to Tutankhamun himself.