“The Golden Boy”-King Tut’s mummy on display.

The mummy of King Tut was put on public display for the first time on Sunday, 85 years after the 3000 year old boy pharaoh’s golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor’s famed valley of the Kings.  “The golden boy has magic and mystery and therefore every person all over the world will see what Egypt is doing to preserve the golden boy and all of them am sure will come to see the golden boy”, Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told reporters. The exhibit will open later this month in London and after it will make a three-city encore tour in the U.S beginning with the Dallas Museum of Art. Archeologists removed the mummy from his stone sarcophagus in his under ground tomb, momentarily pulling aside a white linen covering to reveal his shriveled leather like black face and body. The 19-year-old pharaoh, whose life and death has captivated people for nearly a century was placed in a climate controlled glass box in the tomb with only the face and feet showing under the linen covering.