In pictures: Tutankhamun Exhibition

Thousands are expected at the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition, which opens this week at the O2 in south-east London.

It is the first time in 35 years that many of the artefacts - excavated from the Egyptian boy king's tomb in 1922 - have been displayed in London.

Objects include Tutankhamun's royal diadem, the gold crown found encircling the head of the king's mummified body which he probably wore in life.

This statuette of Tutankhamun wearing the crown of Upper Egypt is one of 35 ritual figures of the king and deities that were placed in sealed wooden shrines in his tomb.

Other exhibits include this gilded coffin of Tutankhamun's supposed great-grandmother Tjuya. Uncovered in 1905, the immense sarcophagus is almost two metres long.

More than 130 treasures from the Valley of the Kings - all of them between 3,000 and 3,500 years old - are showcased in the exhibition, which runs until August 2008.

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