Numbers to tomb of Tutankhamun to be restricted

Reuters Africa

I suppose that this was inevitable after all the new visitors that the new display have attracted to the tomb of Tutankhamun in Luxor:

Egypt will limit the number of visitors to the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun to 400 a day from December 1 and close it from May 2008 for restoration work on the wall paintings, the government said on Sunday.

A statement from the Supreme Antiquities Council said the aim was to preserve the tomb, but it gave no details.

The face of the boy pharaoh went on display in the antechamber of the tomb last week when his mummified body was moved from his stone sarcophagus to a sealed Plexiglas case.