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"The Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh" – which opened in Los Angeles in March – will be presented in Paris next March in the giant artistic complex of La Villette. This is the only stop of the show in Continental Europe.
In this file photo, the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in his burial chamber is seen in the Valley of Kings, Luxor , Egypt, November 28, 2015. (Photo: Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
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More than 50 of the 150 works from his tomb in the exhibition will never leave Cairo, say the Egyptian authorities, who are organizing the preparatory visit to the opening of the Egyptian Grand Museum in Giza in 2020. [19659008] "Treasures of the Golden Pharoah" – which opened in Los Angeles in March – will be presented in Paris next March to the giant of Villette ts complex. This is the only stop of the show in Continental Europe.
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The organizers have not yet unveiled the other nine cities around the world. Previous exhibitions on the pharaoh boy have broken records records, triggering "Tutmania" around the world.
More than eight million people attended an exhibition in 1973 titled "The Treasures of Tutankhamun" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Another group of 1.2 million people queued to see a smaller exhibition six years earlier at the Petit Palais in Paris, as part of "The Exhibition of the Century".
Dr. Mostafa Waziry of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said that the tour should also "celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the King's Tomb."
"The discovery of Tutankhamun's untorned tomb rekindled our fascination for Egypt and its buried treasure," said Vincent Rondot, head of the Egyptian department at the Louvre Museum. . The Louvre lends to the show one of its masterpieces, a statue of the god Amon protecting Tutankhamun.
The Paris exhibition will run from March 23 to September 15, 2019.
The Los Angeles exhibition at California Science The center closes in January.
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