The tomb of Tutankhamun is the most famous archaeological discovery in history and, seen in person, one of the more counterintuitive experiences in Luxor. It is tiny — just four chambers — compared to the royal tombs of Seti I or Ramses III. Tutankhamun was a minor pharaoh who died young, and his tomb was hastily finished. What made it extraordinary was not the tomb itself but the fact that it was found intact, filled with treasure that most royal tombs had lost to robbers millennia earlier.
The burial chamber still contains Tutankhamun's mummy in its outermost coffin, the only pharaoh still resting in situ in the Valley of the Kings. The golden objects and the elaborate burial equipment that filled the antechamber are now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with a new display at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. What you see here is the tomb itself: the painted walls, the sarcophagus, and the mummy — an intimate encounter with a boy king who died 3,300 years ago. Requires a separate ticket on top of the Valley of the Kings entrance.