March 23, 2010, 1:00 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is removing ready to acquire Egypt"s child pharaoh behind to the city he wowed in 1979.
An vaunt of artifacts from King Tutankhamun"s burial ground will have the last stop in New York starting Apr 23. It is right away at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
The New York vaunt will take place at the Discovery Times Square Exposition.
To symbol the initial day of sheet sales Tuesday, a 25-foot statue of the jackal-headed God Anubis (uh-NOO"-bihs) arrived by boat at South Street Seaport.
Former Mayor Ed Koch welcomed the deity and pronounced he looked brazen to saying Tut"s treasures again.
The 1979 King Tut vaunt captivated 1.8 million visitors at New York"s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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