200,000 Americans visit Tut exhibition
Egypt-USA, Economics, 12/24/2005

An Egyptian government report said that: some 200,000 Americans visited "Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs Exhibition" in Fort Luaderdale, Florida, USA since its inauguration last week.

Florida is the second leg of the exhibition tour which covers four states. Some one million people are expected to visit the exhibition during its display in Florida, which will last for four months.

Zahi Hawwas, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the display of the exhibition this time is different where a boat race was held titled "Nile Treasures" and attended by more than 850,000 people.

Meanwhile, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new find during rejuvenations in the Egyptian Museum basement, where they found a sarcophagus of priests of Amun, the Egyptian god of life, represented as a man with a ram's head.

The antique, a report of which was referred to Culture Minister Farouq Hosni, was found by chance when the museum officials were organizing the basement that houses several unregistered artifacts.

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