Tutankhamun returns to New York

In 1979, when the Pharaoh Tutankhamun exhibition came to American soil in New York, the whole country experienced an unusual excitement.

31 years later, restoration and expansion in Egypt allows Tutankhamun to return to the same city that hosted the exhibition more than three decades ago. Until January, 2011, the most famous Egyptian king in the world will be the main attraction of an exhibition showing many of the treasures discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

The exhibition website offers details about the exhibition: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs explores the figures who guided ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.  The exhibition focuses on the 18th Dynasty, a 100-year period when Egypt was at the height of its power and the "golden age" of Egyptian artistry. This was the era when Tutankhamun and his ancestors reigned. The extensive array of more than 130 extraordinary artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other ancient Egyptian sites features 50 of Tutankhamun’s burial objects, including his royal diadem and one of the four gold and precious stone inlaid canopic coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs."

The exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs runs until January 2, 2011.

A parallel exhibition called Tutankhamun the Golden King and the Great Pharaohs will open in Denver on July 1, 2010.

The exhibition website comments: "The exhibition features 50 objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun including the gold sandals that adorned the mummy’s feet and a beautifully adorned canopic jar that mummified his internal organs."