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King Tutankhamun Exhibit Tickets Nearly Sold Out

Tickets to the King Tut Exhibit are going like hot cakes. The exhibit, which had 937,000 visitors, ended its premiere U.S. run in Los Angeles on November 20th, 2005. It will continue on to the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale (Dec. 15th, 2005, to April 23rd, 2006), and then move to The Field Museum, Chicago (May 26th, 2006, to Jan. 1st, 2007) and The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (Feb. 3rd to Sept. 30th, 2007).

The exhibition includes 50 of Tutankhamun`s burial objects, including his royal diadem - the gold crown discovered encircling the head of Tut`s mummified body that he likely wore as king - and one of the gold- and precious-stone-inlaid canopic coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs. The exhibition also will include more than 70 objects from tombs of other 18th Dynasty royals as well as several non-royal individuals. These stone, faience and wooden pieces from burials before Tut`s reign will give visitors a sense of what the lost burials of other royalty and commoners may have been like.

Tutankhamun was one of the last kings of Egypt`s 18th Dynasty and ruled during a crucial, turmoil-filled period of Egyptian history. The boy king died under mysterious circumstances in 1323 B.C., in the ninth year of his reign. He was probably only about 18 or 19 when he died.