Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun "Treasures of Tutankhamun" from 1972 until 1981. Other exhibitions have included "Tutankhamun Treasures" in 1961 and 1967, "Tutankhamen: The Golden Hereafter" beginning in 2004, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" beginning in 2005, and "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" in 2008. Permanent exhibitions include the "Tutankhamun Exhibition" in Dorchester, United Kingdom, which contains replicas of many artifacts. All of the artifacts exhumed from the Tutankhamun tomb are, by international convention, considered property of the Egyptian government. Consequently, these pieces are normally kept at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo; the only way for them to be
Exploration of the Valley of the Kings original tomb owners. In tomb KV17, they removed wall decorations, which are now on display in the Louvre in Paris. In 1845-1846 the valley was explored by Karl Richard Lepsius's expedition; they explored and documented twenty-five in the main valley and four in the west. The second half of the century saw a more concerted effort to preserve rather than simply gathering antiquities. Auguste Mariette's Egyptian Antiquities Service started to explore the valley, first with Eugène Lefébure in 1883, then Jules Baillet and Georges Bénédite in early 1888, and finally Victor Loret in 1898 to 1899. Loret added a further