Will Smith visits The Egyptian Museum

The Fresh Prince meets the boy king: Will Smith looks like he enjoyed Cairo. After seeing the Giza Pyramids, he visited the Egyptian Museum and snapped selfies with relics there, including the mask of Tutankhamun. In related news, the bigger, more organized Grand Egyptian Museum will be opened mid-2018, Antiquities Minister Khaled El Enany announced. Earlier reports had indicated that the first phase would be opened late 2017 with the Museum’s grand opening slated for 2020 upon completion.
… Smith is not the first to photograph the boy king, of course: Modern photographer Harry Cory Wright travelled to the Valley of the Kings to learn how Harry Burton, the first man to photograph Tutankhamun after his burial site was uncovered in 1922, as Rob Hastings writes for iNews. Wright marvels at how Burton could have shot the pictures of Tutankhamun and in the dust of the desert with such technically demanding equipment as he documents and tries to recreate Burton’s work for BBC Four’s current “Britain in Focus” photography season. “For me, that is the big story: recognition of the power of what a photograph could do,” says Cory Wright.