Tutankhamun has become one of the talking points of 1972-almost as though the young Pharaoh himself had been in residence at the British Museum. The treasures buried with him at the end of his short life have been on display there for almost three months and still the visitors pour in to see them.

Now that this marvellous exhibition has reached the half-way point, viewers are invited into the British Museum to look again at some of the 'wonderful things' found by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings, 50 years ago.
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson
with Dr I.E.S. Edwards, Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities

"What lingered in the mind was the glitter of the gold necklaces, the intense blue of the lapis lazuli, and the vulnerable face of the young Egyptian" (Daily Telegraph)