King Tut on tour. The burial mask on display in 2015 in Munich.
UNSPECIFIED - NOVEMBER 03: Howard Carter (1873-1939) english egyptologist near golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamon (mummy) in Egypt in 1922 (photo Harry Burton) (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
Carter opening the wall of the inner chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter hands over the key to the recently-discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Workers build a single-track railway through the Valley of the Kings for transporting relics from Luxor, in 1923.
Howard Carter, right, and archaeologist Arthur Callender remove objects from the antechamber of the tomb of Tutankhamun, in 1923.
The treasures of the tomb are artfully replicated by experts for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924.
A corridor to a stairway in Tutankhamun's tomb in 1925.
British Museum guards come face to face with ancient death mask of Tutankhamun, in 1972.
Queues in London for the British Museum's 1972 exhibition of artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
The gold death mask of the boy king at the British Museum in London in 1972. Getty Images
A giant Tutankhamun mask at a tourism trade fair in Berlin in 2011.
The Valley of the Kings in 2013.
King Tut on tour. The burial mask on display in 2015 in Munich.
UNSPECIFIED - NOVEMBER 03: Howard Carter (1873-1939) english egyptologist near golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamon (mummy) in Egypt in 1922 (photo Harry Burton) (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
Carter opening the wall of the inner chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter hands over the key to the recently-discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Workers build a single-track railway through the Valley of the Kings for transporting relics from Luxor, in 1923.
Howard Carter, right, and archaeologist Arthur Callender remove objects from the antechamber of the tomb of Tutankhamun, in 1923.
The treasures of the tomb are artfully replicated by experts for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924.
A corridor to a stairway in Tutankhamun's tomb in 1925.
British Museum guards come face to face with ancient death mask of Tutankhamun, in 1972.
Queues in London for the British Museum's 1972 exhibition of artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
The gold death mask of the boy king at the British Museum in London in 1972. Getty Images
A giant Tutankhamun mask at a tourism trade fair in Berlin in 2011.
The Valley of the Kings in 2013.
King Tut on tour. The burial mask on display in 2015 in Munich.
