One hundred years ago today, the Times announced to its readers what it called the most sensational

Egyptological discovery of the century.

A few weeks earlier, a boy had dug a small hole in which to stand a water jug and hit a stone

step.

Uncovered, the steps led down to a sealed door.

Inside that door was a passage and beyond the passage was such treasures as you could

hardly dream of.

They had found the lost tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, a wonder of the world.

Tutankhamrin is the sensation of the age.

People would be all over any newspaper and any images that they could get their eyes on.

Which was great news for the Times because we had exclusive reporting rights to the discoveries

inside the tomb.

Outside was a different matter.

All roads lead to Tutankhamun these days and whenever one rides out along the picturesque

canal bank or across the rocky waste, pass a native cemetery leading to the entrance

of the Valley of the Kings, there is a never-ending string of people on donkeys or in sand

carts along the road or over the hill or moving in the direction of or from the newly discovered

tomb.

I remember as a teenager the sensation when, 50 years later, some of the artefacts were

brought to London to be exhibited at the British Museum.

Treasures of Tutankhamun and the Golden Bronze trumpet found in Tutankhamun's tomb welcomes

us to this marvellous exhibition.

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