The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, by Howard Carter, in 1922 has been described as the world’s greatest discovery of ancient treasure. Now children visiting the internationally renowned Tutankhamun Exhibition can go on their own Treasure Hunt over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, with the chance of winning ‘treasure’ for themselves. 

The Tutankhamun Exhibition dramatically recreates the moment of discovery of the tomb. Visitors walk through the ante-chamber filled with its treasure and enter the burial chamber to see Howard Carter raising the coffins from the sarcophagus. In the Treasury some of Tutankhamun’s greatest golden treasures are displayed in exact facsimile.

Children explore this innovative exhibition, become ‘archaeological detectives’ in a bid to solve the puzzle of the missing treasure. All those who correctly follow the clues and crack the code will be entered in a prize draw. One lucky person each day will win a Tutankhamun mummy case with a mummy inside. The Treasure Hunt is being held throughout the Spring Bank Holiday weekend from Saturday 24th – Bank Holiday Monday 26th May.

This special exhibition is at:
The Tutankhamun Exhibition
25 High West Street 
DT1 1UW, Dorchester
Dorset.