King Tut returns to NY for last leg of U.S. exhibit
Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:38pm BST
By Walden Siew

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than 30 years after King Tut's last visit to New York, the golden boy is back.

"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opens Friday and runs to January 2, contains more than 130 rare artifacts, twice the number of treasures shown in the 1970s exhibit.

It includes items used for royal burial practices and daily life in ancient Egypt, King Tut's viscera coffin, containers for the boy king's mummified liver, his chariot and an exhibit explaining new DNA and medical techniques that may unlock more discoveries about the Pharaoh's royal family and how they died. ...