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Tut Mummy on Public Display for First Time
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by René | November 9, 2007 at 01:34 pm
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The new display is also expected to increase visits to the tomb from about 350 to 900 tourists a day, generating funds for the protection of Egyptian antiquities.
...on Sunday morning the remains—settled inside a wooden box—were
carefully transferred to a high-tech glass display case about 30 feet
(9 meters) away in the tomb's antechamber.
I've seen reports that the mummy was handled with bare hands, by Hawass!
How is that careful?
Although the case will be filled with nitrogen which will kill all microorganisms, there will be no temperature control on the glass box. Tut move to save his Mummy?
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at 13:40 on November 9th, 2007
Yeah, I'd rather not see the face of Tut. Let the mystery be, but that's just my own opinion.
at 14:03 on November 9th, 2007
I cried, Jordan, I cried before I heard the news.
at 13:57 on November 9th, 2007
Hawass calls him the "Golden Mummy", the "Golden Boy-King", but he's not golden any more. They took the last of his gold away!