King Tut's face revealed (3 photos)

Dr. Zahi Hawass, in the mummy's glass case, speaks to the media.

"The face of the golden boy is amazing. It has magic and it has

mystery," he said.

An AP story by Anna Johnson, reports on the unveiling of King Tut: "King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public - more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in linen and buried in his golden underground tomb."

King Tut

"Archeologists carefully lifted the fragile mummy out of a quartz sarcophagus decorated with stone-carved protective goddesses, momentarily pulling aside a beige covering to reveal a leathery black body."

The 19-year-old king, whose life and death has fascinated people ever since his body was discovered, was moved to a climate-controlled case to preserve it.

"I can say for the first time that the mummy is safe and the mummy is well preserved, and at the same time, all the tourists who enter this tomb will be able to see the face of Tutankhamun for the first time," Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said from inside the hot tomb.
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