The face of the best-known pharaoh in history is now revealed after 85 years since his mummy was discovered and more than 3,300 years after his death.

The Tutankhamun’s tomb stopped being a secret since its discovery in 1922 by British treasure-seeker Howard Carter. Filled with gold and semi-precious stones, the tomb amazed a whole world for almost a century. It took five years for Carter to remove and catalogue the contents of the tomb. Yet his face remained a secret being covered by a golden mask.

People’s thirst for seeing the mysterious mummy is now over. Tutankhamun’s face is now unveiled in Luxor’s well-known Valley of the Kings where he and other pharaohs have found their rest for more than three millenniums.

The pharaoh’s body was removed carefully from a golden sarcophagus and granite coffin in a small underground tomb and transferred it to a climate-controlled glass case to keep it protected from dust and other risky factors. Yet people get to see only his face and his feet. The rest of the body remained shrouded, being in poor conditions.

Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s antiquities chief said: "The face of the golden boy -- it is amazing, it has magic, and it has mystery. If you look at his face, you can feel the face of the 'Golden King,' and you can feel that his buck teeth are similar to his family's," the Independent reports.

The mummy has suffered several damages since it was discovered in 1922. It was broken into 18 pieces when British Egyptologist Howard Carter tried to remove the golden mask from his face.

The mummy was scanned two years ago when Egyptologists discovered that the 19-year-might have died from a serious infection. He seemed to have suffered a fracture to his left thigh during a chariot hunting, which led to an infection later causing his death. Mostafa Wazery, director of the Valley of the Kings complex said: "The left wheel of the chariot was damaged, (and) he fell (to the) left. Everywhere in his funerary items, you find him hunting -- it was his hobby,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports.

This is just one hypotheses of what might have cause Tutankhamun’s death. The real reason is still a mystery.

"We won't know for sure unless he rises from the dead," Hawass said.

Scientists believe that Tutankhamun took the throne when he was eight or nine and keep it for almost 10 years. He was the 12^th and final pharaoh of the 18^th Dynasty, which seems to be "the last of the line of a very important empire of warrior pharaohs," as Egyptologist David Silverman, professor and museum curator at the University of Pennsylvania said, PTR reports.

There are disputes on whether he was the son or half-brother of Akhenaton, the “heretic pharaoh” who introduced a revolutionary form of monotheism in Egypt or the son of Amenhotep III.

Tour guides said that visitors have a new reason to come on the Valley of the Kings now. Tutankhamun’s face will be following them from his quiet place and will be the source of new stories around the world.