Tutankhamun's Exhibition Returns Home

166 artifacts of King Tutankhamun's exhibition returned home today Friday, coming from the third stop in the British capital, London, where the exhibition was held under the title “Tutankhamun ... the treasures of the Golden Pharaoh”.

The foreign tour of the exhibition began in 2018 in the city of Los Angeles, in the United States of America, then the French capital, Paris, and the British capital, London.

This exhibition has achieved great success in these countries, especially in France, where it broke the visitor record in the history of cultural exhibitions, as more than a million and 400 thousand visitors visited it during 6 months in 2019.

Due to the repercussions of the emerging Coronavirus crisis, the exhibition in London was closed during March 2020, 44 days before the end of its original period, as part of the precautionary and preventive measures that have been taken in Britain.

Accordingly, the Board of Directors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities ordered the return of these artifacts to the Arab Republic of Egypt.

The council decided to display 10 of these artifacts on a temporary basis in Hurghada Museum, which was recently opened, while 10 others will be displayed in Sharm El Sheikh Museum, which will be opened at the end of this year.