Tutankhamun has a reputation as a fragile young man who limped on a clubfoot.
Among other items, the exhibit will include the gold burial mask, musical instruments, hunting equipment, jewelry and six chariots.Įven as more of Tut’s story is poised to come to light, here are four things to know on the 100th anniversary of his tomb’s discovery. “The burial hoard is something very unique,” Shirin Frangoul-Brückner, managing director of Atelier Brückner in Stuttgart, Germany, the firm that designed the museum’s Tutankhamun Gallery, said in an interview released by her company. About 5,400 of Tutankhamun’s well-preserved tomb furnishings are slated to soon go on display when the new Grand Egyptian Museum, near the Pyramids of Giza, opens. While some objects, like Tut’s gold burial mask, are now iconic, many have been in storage and out of sight for decades. Although a minor figure among Egyptian pharaohs, Tutankhamun is one of the few whose richly appointed burial place was found largely intact.Īn unusually meticulous excavator for his time, Carter organized a 10-year project to document, conserve and remove more than 6,000 items from Tutankhamun’s four-chambered tomb. His reign lasted nearly a decade until his untimely demise. Tutankhamun assumed power around 1334 B.C., when he was about 10 years old.
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