King Tut Exhibits Draw Applauds
By Arnab Ghosh, Gaea News NetworkSaturday, April 24, 2010
NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com)- After a break of more than 2 decades, the King Tut Exhibit is back in New York once more and it is drawing huge footfalls as the reports suggest. There are 130 artifacts on display that have been discovered in the tomb of the boy King who continues to make historians wonder. The exhibit took place the last time in Manhattan in 1979. Even at that time the tour proved to be extremely popular and almost 8 million people attended it. Among the Egyptian Kings known as Pharaohs King Tutankhamun continues to be very popular and his reign is considered to be very important to the historians. The young king died at the shockingly young age of 18 as it has been found.
He died over 3000 years ago. His tomb was found in 1922 by Howard Carter. Contrary to other kings and their remains, the tomb of King Tut was found in better shape and the artifacts were in relatively better condition. His tomb contained lots of stuff made of precious metals and the historians have found out a lot about ancient Egypt by studying these stuffs over the years. The funeral mask of the king, which is shown in the exhibit is made up of solid gold and has immense historical value apart from its worth in terms of money.
King Tut also had a huge number of sandals and after studying them the historians have concluded that he probably suffered from feet deformations. The exhibit is giving the students of history one more chance to learn about the glorious reign of King Tut.
