Egypt to limit tourists to Tutankhamen tomb

The number of visitors to the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings will be restricted to 400 a day starting next month.

The tomb will close to visitors indefinitely from May next year in order to carry out restoration work, Supreme Council for Antiquities secretary general Zahi Hawass said in a statement.

Every day hundreds of visitors file through his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor, bringing with them into the royal tomb bacteria, humidity and other pollutants.

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