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More than 150 items - from statues and
sculptures to a silver trumpet and a funerary bed - will be
exhibited in "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh", at
the capital's Saatchi Gallery.
Other exhibits include a wooden ceremonial shield, linen gloves
and a life-size statue of the king that stood guard at the
entrance of his last resting place.
"The reason we are here, we are celebrating almost 100 years
since the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun,"
exhibition curator Tarek El Awady told Reuters.
"It is the first time Egypt allowed this number of artefacts to
leave the country ... This is the last traveling exhibition of
Tutankhamun."
More than 60 of the items have left Egypt for the first time,
the gallery says.
The tomb of the 18th dynasty king was discovered by British
archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor
in 1922. It contained about 5,000 artefacts.
London is the third of 10 cities hosting the exhibition after
successful runs in Paris and Los Angeles.
The items will eventually return to Egypt, where they will be
put on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum, scheduled to open
next year next to the Giza Pyramids.
"Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh" runs at London's
Saatchi Gallery until May 3, 2020.
(Reporting by Iona Serrapica; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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