:The Burial Chamber   Howard Carter comes face to face with Tutankhamun   The scene in the burial chamber re-creates the moment that Carter separates the outer gold coffin from the inner gold and enamel coffins. The third coffin which lay within the gold and enamel coffin was to surprise Carter, for it was made of solid gold. The famous gold mask covered the bandaged mummy. The audio presentation explains the background to the lifting of the coffin and dramatises some of the funerary texts found on the golden screens that surrounded the stone sarcophagus.   The Blue Baboon Wall in the Burial Chamber.   Tutankhamun's soul is released in the ceremony of ‘opening of the mouth’ on the wall of the Burial Chamber. home