KING TUT MASK, EGYPTIAN MUSEUM(01 of22)
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King Tut Death Mask, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt(02 of22)
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King Tut Golden Death Mask - Cairo, Egypt(03 of22)
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Back side of King Tut Death Mask, Egyptian Museum(04 of22)
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Funeral Mask of Tutankhamun(05 of22)
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Tutankhamun before Osiris, pharaoh in front of goddess Nut and Ay performing opening of mouth ceremony, fresco, wall of burial chamber, Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt. Egypt(06 of22)
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A picture taken on October 20, 2009 show(07 of22)
Open Image ModalA picture taken on October 20, 2009 shows King Tutankhamun\'s golden mask displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images)
A picture taken on October 20, 2009 show(08 of22)
Open Image ModalA picture taken on October 20, 2009 shows King Tutankhamun\'s golden mask displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images)
(FILES) -- A picture taken on October 20(09 of22)
Open Image Modal(FILES) -- A picture taken on October 20, 2009 shows King Tutankhamun\'s golden mask displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo. DNA testing has unraveled some of the mystery surrounding the birth and death of pharaoh king Tutenkhamun, revealing his father was a famed monotheistic king and ruling out Nefertiti as his mother, Egypt\'s antiquities chief said on February 17, 2010. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images)
(FILES) -- A picture taken on October 20(10 of22)
Open Image Modal(FILES) -- A picture taken on October 20, 2009 shows King Tutankhamun\'s golden mask displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo. DNA testing has unraveled some of the mystery surrounding the birth and death of pharaoh king Tutenkhamun, revealing his father was a famed monotheistic king and ruling out Nefertiti as his mother, Egypt\'s antiquities chief said on February 17, 2010. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images)
People look at the mummy of Tutankhamunâ(11 of22)
Open Image ModalPeople look at the mummy of Tutankhamunâs mother (an unidentified queen whose mummy was known as \'The Younger Lady\') at the Egyptian museum in Cairo on February 17, 2010. New research has revealed that the boy king Tutankhamun died of malaria after a fall, used a cane, and was the son of the monotheistic Pharaoh Akhenaten, Egypt\'s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images)
A pictures shows the mummy of Akhenaten,(12 of22)
Open Image ModalA pictures shows the mummy of Akhenaten, Tutankhamunâs father at the Egyptian museum in Cairo on February 17, 2010. The pharaohs were not effeminate despite the appearance of Tutankhamun on his golden bust, Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said he unveiled new evidence about the life and times of the famed boy king.\nAFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:KHALED DESOUKI via Getty Images)
(FILES) A picture taken on November 4, 2(13 of22)
Open Image Modal(FILES) A picture taken on November 4, 2007 shows the face of Pharaoh Tutankhamun displayed in a climate-controlled case at his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor, 500 kms south of Cairo. Egypt is to unveil on February 17, 2010 results of DNA tests carried out on the mummy of the enigmatic boy-king Tutankhamun in a bid to unravel the mystery concerning his lineage. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:CRIS BOURONCLE via Getty Images)
Detail of a granite statue of Tutankhamu(14 of22)
Open Image ModalDetail of a granite statue of Tutankhamun on display April 21, 2010 at a preview of \'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs\', an exhibition at Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York. Multicolored medical scans of the real mummy are reflected in the glass case. The exhibit opens April 23. AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:STAN HONDA via Getty Images)
Detail of a granite statue of Tutankhamu(15 of22)
Open Image ModalDetail of a granite statue of Tutankhamun on display April 21, 2010 at a preview of \'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs\', an exhibition at Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York. Multicolored medical scans of the real mummy are reflected in the glass case. The exhibit opens April 23. AFP PHOTO/Stan Honda (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:STAN HONDA via Getty Images)
Statue of Pharaoh at the Luxor Temple, Egypt(16 of22)
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Statue of Pharaoh at the Luxor Temple, Egypt(17 of22)
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Theban mountain in Luxor(18 of22)
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The Great Pyramids(19 of22)
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egyptian papyrus(20 of22)
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Temple of Hathor Abu Simbel Egypt(21 of22)
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The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun, kno(22 of22)
Open Image ModalThe sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun, known as the \'Child Pharaoh\' remains empty in its burial chamber after the mummy was placed in a glass urn designed to protect the remains of the ancient king from humidity and other contamination brought by a constant flow of over 350 visitors a day in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor, 500 kms south of Cairo 04 November 2007. Temperature will be controlled to 25 centigrade and humidity maintained around 35 percent. Tutankhamun ascended to the throne at nine years old and died at about eighteen years of age. This is the first time his uncovered face will be presented to the public 30 centuries after his death. The tomb was discovered by British collector Lord George Carnarvon and archaeologist Howard Carter 04 November 1922. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:CRIS BOURONCLE via Getty Images)