The golden outer coffin of Tutankhamun has been removed from its sterilisation tent before it undergoes a painstaking eight-month restoration process. It is in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.

JAN MOIR: To speak a dead man's name, the pharaohs believed, was to make him live again. Next month, some of the priceless treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb will arrive in London.

The Saatchi Gallery has been criticised for its £37.50 ticket price to its show Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, with claims it is Britain's most expensive exhibition.

EXCLUSIVE: Tarek el-Awady, 55, the curator of the Tutankhamun: exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery said that modern depictions of Cleopatra resemble Ankhesenamun.

A team of archaeologists, led by former Egyptian minister of antiquities, Mamdouh Eldamaty from Ain Shams University, used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to make their discovery.