From King Tutankhamun's golden slippers to a silver trumpet – plus 60 objects never seen outside Egypt – catch a global exhibition of the boy-king’s funerary objects

This shrine shows Tutankhamun and his half-sister Ankhesenamun Laboratoriorosso

Exhibition

Tutankhamun: Treasures of the golden pharaoh

Saatchi Gallery, London, From 2 November to 3 May 2020

LIFE after death was a complicated business in Ancient Egypt. The volume of treasures found in Tutankhamun’s tomb show that Egyptian royals didn’t travel lightly to the afterlife. When King Tut’s crypt was discovered nearly 100 years ago – the only tomb of a pharaoh to be found unplundered – it contained thousands of objects to help his bid for immortality.

Now, 150 of these objects are on a world tour. Sixty of them have never …