One of many world’s biggest archaeological finds occurred 100 years in the past this yr, and you may study all about it at a brand new exhibition: Discovering King Tut’s Tomb at (fittingly) Luxor.

This self-guided journey, offered by Think about Exhibitions, takes visitors to historical Egypt and The Valley of the Kings the place greater than 60 tombs of kings and queens and, most significantly the well-known King Tutankhamun (extra generally generally known as King Tut), have been found by Howard Carter and his crew in November of 1922.

The exhibition begins within the caves of the valley the place the encompassing sounds of excavation might be heard, and the partitions are coated in pictures of rock and hieroglyphics. As you step deeper and deeper into that world, you’ll come throughout replicas of historical Egyptian artifacts that have been uncovered from the earth—tons of gold and towering statues of Egyptian gods and on a regular basis objects like cookware and tableware utilized by the villagers.

Fascinating factors embrace movies and diagrams of the mummification and entombment course of. You’ll additionally study King Tut’s life, a brief lifetime of solely 19 years. Find out about how Tut might need died, from a doable an infection from a damaged leg attributable to a chariot accident. Movies additionally reveal what Carter and his crew found once they unearthed Tut’s physique and carried out autopsies displaying the “boy king” suffered from a clubbed foot, cleft palate, curved backbone and extreme immune points like malaria that have been present in his bones.

A few of the most visually putting tableaus embrace the reproduction of the golden shrine masking King Tut’s sarcophagus and a re-creation of King Tut’s coffin—three nested golden coffins with the mummified kind wrapped in royal regalia and the extraordinary reproduction of Tut’s loss of life masks adorned in valuable stones.

For an extra value (and we extremely counsel it!), on the finish of the journey you possibly can take a six-minute digital actuality expertise that means that you can discover King Tut’s tomb precisely because it was discovered 100 years in the past.

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