CAIRO - 23 September 2019: The exhibition "Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh" has closed its doors to the public in Paris on Sunday evening, breaking the record in the history of the organization of cultural exhibitions in France. It has been visited by 1,423,170 visitors in the past six months since it was opened by the Minister of Antiquities on March 23, 2019 at the Grand Hall de la Villette.
The Minister of Antiquities explains that in 1967, when France hosted the Tutankhamun exhibition for the first time, the exhibition attracted 1,240,975 visitors. Today, 52 years later, the young king's exhibition, on his second trip to Paris, attracted more than 1.4 million visitors. These facts show the extent of the passion of the French people and visitors to France of the ancient Egyptian civilization, adding that despite the success of these exhibitions, they allowed the French people and the peoples of the world to see a small and simple part of the treasures of the Golden King and ancient civilization of Egypt.
The Minister of Antiquities stressed that this exhibition is an invitation to attract and encourage millions of passionate visitors in Egypt and its great and unique civilization to travel to discover thousands of pieces of the treasures of the Golden King and visit and enjoy watching many archaeological areas and museums distinctive throughout Egypt.
It is worth mentioning that the exhibition "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh" includes 150 artifacts of the young king's holdings, including a number of statues of gilt shawabti, wooden boxes, canopic pots, and the gilded wooden Ka statue and Alabaster pots.
Mon, Sep. 23, 2019
