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/ 5 November 2007
Egypt put the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun on display in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on Sunday, giving visitors their first chance to see the face of a ruler who died more than 3 000 years ago. The mummy’s face has high cheekbones and cracked and blackened skin with an intact nose.
The first tomb discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 80 years doesn’t have any mummies, but archaeologists opened the last of eight sarcophagi on Wednesday and found something they say is even more valuable: embalming materials and a rare collar of ancient, woven flowers.