The incredible newly released photos revealed famed Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s mummified face and feet
King Tut’s body was wrapped in linen and displayed in climate-controlled glass case in his underground tomb
Researchers painstakingly cleaned and analysed every part of the tomb during the near decade-long project
Tomb of the Pharaoh, who died at 18, is in Valley of the Kings, which can be found on the west bank of the Nile
Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s mummified face and feet have been revealed in an incredible series of photos following a nine-year restoration of his tomb.
After almost a decade of painstaking work, conservators in Egypt repaired the newly restored tomb of the Pharaoh, better known as King Tut.
They shared a series of images of the tomb – but the most striking photos showed the Pharaoh’s mummified face and feet.
The mummified body of King Tut, who died at the aged 18, was wrapped in linen and displayed in a climate-controlled glass case in his underground tomb.
The tomb is in the Valley of the Kings, which can be found on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the southern Egyptian city of Luxor.
It was thought that brown spots, microbiological growths on the burial chamber’s painted walls, might be growing.
However, researchers analyzed historic photographs from the mid-1920s and found they showed no new growth of the spots.
To confirm this finding, DNA and chemical analysis were undertaken and confirmed the spots to be microbiological in origin but dead and thus no longer a threat.
Because the spots have penetrated into the paint layer, they have not been removed since this would harm the wall paintings.
When the tomb was discovered in 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter, under the patronage of Lord Carnarvon, the media frenzy that followed was unprecedented.
Carter and his team took 10 years to clear the tomb of its treasure because of the multitude of objects found within it.
The latest project was put in place over fears the tomb was being damaged by the sheer number of tourists visiting
