By Michael Ventura
DNAinfo Senior Editor
MANHATTAN — The latest out-of-towner to visit Times Square is King Tut.
More than three decades after the boy king was the toast of New York in 1979, when 1.8 million people visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see artifacts from his tomb, Tutankhamun's coming back with a new show at the Discovery Times Square Exhibition.
"The last time these items toured the United States, in the 1970s, it really defined — to this day — what a blockbuster exhibit was," Mark Lach, the exhibition's designer, told the New York Post. "At the time, it was believed it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, that it would never travel again, but now it's back."
Fifty objects, including a golden "coffinette" and a crown Tut once wore, will be on display with 80 objects from his ancestors, according to the exhibition's Web site. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opens April 23.
To mark the coming exhibition, a 25-foot statue of the jackal-headed Egyptian god Anubis was brought to South Street Seaport by barge.
The artifacts have toured the nation, attracting 6 million visitors so far, organizers told the Post.
The exhibit will run through January.
