Tutankhamun returns to London to celebrate 100 years since tomb’s discovery

Highlights from ‘Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh exhibition’ during the  press preview at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea in London, Britain, 01 November 2019.

Egyptomania is expected to hit London as the largest collection of Tutankhamun’s treasures to ever leave Egypt goes on tour for the last time.

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Produced by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and IMG, and presented in London by Viking Cruises ‘Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh’ exhibition will unveil more than 150 original objects from the tomb, 60 of which are travelling out of Egypt for the first and final time before they return for permanent display within the Grand Egyptian Museum which is currently under construction.

The first time Tutankhamun arrived in London in the 1970s, record crowds of over 1.5 million people flocked to the British Museum.

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