The original exhibit, TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS, is scheduled to return to the US in Dallas on October 3, 2008. The exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art will include the original 130 artifacts plus some extras that will be announced later. The exhibit is scheduled for Oct 3 to May 17, 2009.

The Atlanta exhibit will have 50 treasures from King Tut's tomb, plus a recreation of the four rooms of the tomb, and 70 artifacts representing a broad expanse of Ancient Egypt's history. A collossal statue of King Tut never seen before in the US will also be exhibited. There will also be three more destinations to be announced.

Since they are two very different exhibits, it will be hard to choose which one to go to. Perhaps the rising price of gas will be the deciding factor for many.

Are you going to go to one or both of them? Which one?

I want to go to both.

René O'Deay

So what of the broken ribs and the pharaoh's member, which were both intact when Howard Carter first opened the tomb, but have mysteriously disappeared?

So valuable was the tomb that it has been guarded round the clock since its discovery. However, there was one period when a modern grave robbery might have taken place. During the Second World War when the Egyptian desert was reduced to a battleground.

The latest tests indicate quite clearly that someone must have used this opportunity to deliberately cut away the pharaoh's ribs in order to get tothe jewelled collar he was wearing and which was glued fast to the body by the ancient embalmer's sticky black resin. The extraordinary story of Tutankhamun is not over yet.

Who Stole King Tut's Jewels?

Now the question is: What happened to that necklace? What happened to the cut-away ribs?

The gallery of Harry Burton's King Tutankhamen photos at the Griffith Institute does not reveal which necklace was left on his body. Though photo P2002 looks promising. Maybe it was a vulture necklace, or? The link takes you to the page that shows Tut's mummy covered in a shroud (P2001), and uncovered (P2003) still with all the splendid jewels and mask, his golden hands and sceptres. But P2000 and P2002 might shock you.

Carter's notes on the mummy of Tut, and what was left on his head

On removing these last two objects it was found that the head wrappings were tied at the back in the manner of a chinon. Note linen headdress. (4S) Beneath more wrappings, a thin sheet gold band exactly similar to (4P) and in similar position was tied beneath the occiput by means of linen tape fastened by knot in centre - (see photo).

Upon the head was placed a sort of skull cap of fine linen and worked upon a design of curve serpent pattern, this was supposed to secure for the dead one a sight of the sun. (4T) This actual skull-cap of the thinnest cambric fabric having device of four uraeii worked with very fine faience and gold beads, the centres of the head of the cobras bearing small cartouches, takes in order sequence the letter 4T, and fits closely to the crown of the head. As it would have been practically impossible to remove this device owing to its fragile nature & minuteness of work, it was consolidated with paraffin wax and left in place.

The beaded skull cap seems to now be missing also. Did Dr. Hawass have them removed? It would have taken many hours of work since the linen cap the beads had been sewn on was too fragile to remove.

In the photo above from the King Tut exhibition website, the skull cap and gold band seem to be still in place.

But they also seem to be missing in the recent photos of King Tut's head when they put his body on display in the Valley of the Kings tomb.

Cairo, December 30 (ANI): As far as discoveries related to Egyptian history are concerned, 2007 has been a very good year for archaeologists so far, says a report.

Excavators carrying out routine excavation or cleaning at various sites in Egypt made a new discovery almost every day.

However, what particularly generated huge interest among archaeologist fraternity was the the identification of the mummy of the female Pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut, and the uncovering of the real face of the boy-king Tutankhamun, reports Al-Ahram.

The restoration of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the reopening of the Kuttub Khana, the discovery of a New Kingdom fortress in Sinai, an intact tomb brimming with fine funerary pieces in the Delta and Palaeolithic rock art depicting animals in Upper Egypt, were the other important events that took place during the year.
Hatshepsut's empty sarcophagus, now in the Egyptian Museum, was found alongside that of her father, Tuthmosis I. 2007 has been a good year for Egyptologists - Thaindian News