Expedition: Ancient Egypt

 
 Photo Gallery: The Valley of the Kings


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Cairo, Egypt (map), 2002
Photograph by Nancy Gupton

After the internal organs of Pharaoh Tutankhamun were removed and treated with a preservative, they were stored in an alabaster chest and entombed in a gilded wooden shrine protected by a quartet of goddesses. The shrine, along with most of the treasures found in Tut's tomb, is now in Cairo's Egyptian Museum.

Text adapted from "Valley of the Kings," September 1998, National Geographic magazine

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