“The discovery of the Golden City is amazing in that it shows exactly the time when Amenhotep III was ruling,” says Renée Dreyfus, the curator of the show’s San Francisco edition. A limestone headrest, found in the Golden City, was used to protect the sleeper from insects at night Massimo ListriAmenhotep III, who ruled between around 1390BC and 1352BC, was likely King Tut’s grandfather. The Golden City has drawn comparisons with Pompeii for both the insight it provides into daily life and its appearance of having been frozen in time. While these kinds of official artefacts have long served as clues into the culture of Ancient Egypt, newly discovered objects from the Golden City fill the void of how ordinary people lived. • Treasures of the Pharaohs , de Young Museum, San Francisco, 1 August-31 January 2027; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 14 March-19 September 2027