Visitors generally make their way to the highlight of their visit, the Tutankhamun hall, slowly taking in some of the other important exhibits. These include the Amarna Room which houses artefacts from the heretical Akhenaten period; the room holds statuary showing the unmistakable face of the Pharaoh together with an unfinished yet beautiful carving of the head of his wife, Nefertiti.
The exhibition of Pharaonic mummies is a little creepy but is nonetheless unmissable and demonstrates the remarkable success the ancients had in preserving the dead with features, hair and even wounds clearly visible.
Lastly and most importantly are some of the 1700 artefacts discovered by Howard Carter in Tutankhamun’s tomb, including gold statues, thrones, huge gilded sarcophagi, and of course the stunning gold funerary mask.