Tue Nov 10, 7:36 AM ET

Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute announceda five year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ben Curtis, Pool, File)

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