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This beautiful decorated chest was probably for keeping clothes in.

One of the many chairs from Tutankhamun's tomb. The most famous, of course, is the throne which has a tender scene of the king with his wife.

A wooden figure of Tutankhamun as a child.

The most famous of Tutankhamun's treasures, the solid gold funerary mask.

I just love this view of the funerary mask: The way the end of the head-dress has been formed into a sort of plait.

The two coffins.
I have always suspected that one of them really belongs to his brother Smenkhare, as the face looks older than that of a boy of 19,

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