The ‘Valley of the Kings’ is the name of the famous necropolis west of the Nile, where the Englishman Howard Carter made his sensational discovery in 1922: Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. This was the only burial chamber in the valley to escape looting by robbers and to contain the undisturbed burial treasure. In addition to the famous golden death mask, the chamber contained more than 700 precious statues, furniture, and boxes of provisions intended to accompany the pharaoh to his rebirth – and to a certain extent they did. Today, the mummy is the only item still kept at the place where it was found, while the burial gifts are in the museums of Luxor and Cairo.