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]]> White-coated and masked Egyptologists have begun restoring  the badly damaged coffin of the boy Pharaoh Tutankamun found nearly a century ago.

It will go on display at the new grand museum opening next year overlooking the pyramids of Giza.

The gilded coffin is the the outer container of three concentric coffins containing the mummy of Kind Tutankamun.

It was left at Luxor on the Nine from where it was moved amidst strict security last month.

Restoration will take eight months after which it  will go on display with the two inner coffins in the largest museum the planet devoted to a single civilization.

Its value is impossible to determine.

A 3500 year old bust of the 19-year old Tutankamun sold at Christie’s in London for $6 million last month.

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