The King of New York  In 1976, more than 3,000 years after his
death, King Tutankhamun’s second reign began as treasures from
the Egyptian boy monarch’s tomb reached the U.S., touching off a
“Tut-mania” that engulfed everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Andy
Warhol to Steve Martin. David Kamp tells how rival directors of
two great American museums joined forces for an epic event that
brought the term “blockbuster” to high art.   LOST AND FOUND
Tutankhamun’s golden mask. Archaeologist Howard Carter
(kneeling), with Lord Carnarvon, opens the innermost shrine of
the tomb, 1923.  I. The Boy King  Approximately 3,336 years ago,
Tutankhamun, a minor king in a major Egyptian dynasty—the
18th—breathed his last. He was in his late teens, and he had
reigned since he was nine years old. After a brief mourning
period, the pharaoh’s acolytes swung into action, mounting an
epic of funerary ceremony worthy of Cecil B. DeMille.  First
came embalming. Tutankhamun’s heart was left intact, but other
vital internal organs—his liver