The 3,000-year-old face of a woman her eyes lined in black kohl stared out from a sarcophagus funerary mask through the freshly unsealed door of a tomb.

The five mummies inside possibly members of a pharaoh's court are already celebrities amid archaeologists' excitement over the first tomb discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since that of King Tut more than 80 years ago.

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