Overview

• Authorities opened the royal burial on Saturday, returning public access to one of the Valley of the Kings’ largest tombs opposite Luxor.
• About 260 restorers, conservators and technicians spent more than twenty years stabilizing the structure and treating murals that UNESCO said were at risk due to potential collapse.
• New wooden stairs and walkways guide visitors past vivid blue wall paintings, and the granite sarcophagus lid remains in situ because of its weight.
• Amenhotep III’s mummy and sarcophagus are displayed at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilizations, while many funerary figurines were dispersed to the Louvre, the Met and Highclere Castle after early excavations.
• Officials led media tours to mark the reopening as Egypt prepares for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s formal inauguration in November.