Paris will be the only city in Europe to host this exhibition and, above all, the only one to show the sarcophagus of Ramses II. Organizers announced Thursday that more than 145,000 tickets had already been sold, more than for Tutankhamun before the opening to the public.
The last "visit" of the pharaoh in France was in 1976. Since this rescue, the ties between the two countries have been strengthened, insists the Egyptologist. It remained nearly a century in the tomb of Seti I, the father of the 19th dynasty.