Egypt

Exhibition: Tutankhamun in Vienna

The Earth Times

Ancient Egypt's most famous pharaoh, Tutankhamun, is expected to draw the masses to Vienna's Museum of Ethnology in what organizers have bill as a unique exhibition of Egypt's treasures. "Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs" has already sold 50,000 advance tickets, creating "more interest than any other exhibition we ever organized", Wilfried Seipel, the head of Vienna's Fine Art Museum and one of the organizers, said.

At least 500,000 visitors were expected to view the statues, funerary objects and gold jewellery on show during the exhibition's run from March 9 to September 28, a museum spokeswoman said.

The exhibition shows 140 objects from Cairo's Egyptian Museum, many of which had never previously left the country, museum director Wafaa el-Saddik said.

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