Mummies: Bodies Talk

King Tut’s tomb (known as KV62) was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. His coffin, made of solid gold, weighs 450 pounds.

Tut’s treasures, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo - a city where massive non-violent, anti-government protests (resulting in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak) erupted in 2011 - represent some of the few royal artifacts not stolen by grave robbers soon after pharaohs were buried.  (View the location of the Egyptian Museum, which is near Tahrir Square - site of the protestors' camp.)

• Funerary chapel housing Tut's sarcophagus.
  

• Howard Carter cleans the third coffin of King Tut.
  
  
• Tut’s death mask. 
  
  
• Side view of the death mask.
  
  
• Back view of the death mask.
  
  
• The mummy of King Tut, after the wrappings were removed.

• An artifact from Tut’s tomb.
  
  
• Tut and his wife. 
  
  
• Tut’s throne depicts the king and his wife.
  
  
• Alabaster jars contained Tut’s internal organs.
  
  
• Statues of 365 servants accompanied the pharaoh to his tomb so they could serve him 365 days a year.
  
  
• One of King Tut’s guards. 

• King Tut and Ankhesenamun, His Wife.
  

There may be other treasures, still intact with the mummified remains of pharaohs who owned them in life, resting undisturbed in the Valley of the Kings. But given mankind’s endless fascination with mummies, it is safe to say we have not heard the last of the great discoveries.