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Missing pieces of a miniature model boat buried with ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun have been found in museum storage.

The box of artifacts packed by Howard Carter — the British archaeologist who first opened Tut's tomb in 1922 — was recently rediscovered in a storeroom at the Luxor Museum.

"It's the most exciting discovery in my career," Mohamed Atwa, the museum's director of archaeology and information, who found the box, said in a statement.

"It's amazing that after all these years we still have new discoveries and new secrets for this golden king, Tutankhamun."

King Tut lived between 1341 B.C. and 1323 B.C., during Egypt's New Kingdom. He is famous today because of his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, which was discovered nearly intact and stuffed with treasures, including a golden death mask, a gilded fan, alabaster perfume vessels, a statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis, a royal