CHICAGO -- Chicago-area residents have a chance to experience the story of King Tutankhamen and the golden age of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

The exhibit will be at the Field Museum through the end of the year. Ticket prices range from $15 to $30.

NBC5's Bob Sirott took an early tour of the more than 100 artifacts from ancient kingdom's boy king.

"This discovery never happened in history," said Zahi Hawass, Egypt's secretary general of The Supreme Council of Antiquities. "Maybe this discovery will never be repeated."

In 1922, a British archeologist, Howard Carter, was exploring in the Valley of the Kings when a worker brought water jars for the day.

"In the morning, a water boy was bringing water in the big jars and he took a jar from the donkey and put it down," Hawass said. "He found the entrance and that was the moment of history."

The staircase that the worker discovered lead to the tomb of Tutankhamen, the best-preserved royal tomb ever discovered.

"A moment of the golden tomb," Hawass said. "The discovery of the golden tomb."

Tutankhamen's tomb revealed a civilization dedicated to the afterlife.

"These objects represent something to the Ancient Egyptians," said Field Museum Curator Jim Phillips. "They weren't just put there by chance."

"These are artifacts that the king will need to drink beer or wine, or to sleep," Hawass said. "The tomb is his eternal life."

Along with the discovery of the tomb came talk of a curse.

"Many of the people who opened the tomb died relatively quickly," Phillips said. "So, the idea was there was a curse for opening this tomb and, therefore, you were going to die in a horrible way."

This is not the first time Tutankhamen, who has become known in the west as "King Tut," has visited Chicago. In 1977, more than 1,000,000 visitors came to the Field Museum to view the exhibit.

Phillips said while the emphasis in on Tutankhamen, there are other royals that will be featured in the exhibit.

"The emphasis is on Tut, but it's on Tut in the context of his life and his kingship and his relationship with his relatives and the nature of his death, and the meaning of death in Egypt," Phillips said.

The exhibit begins with the ancestors of Tutankhamen and the age of the pharaohs. Visitors will meet Tuthmosis, and his mother Tiaa, who are believed to be the ancestors of Tutankhamen.

The exhibit also includes 50 objects from Tutankhamen's tomb, along with 70 others from Royal ancestral burials. There are also depictions of Tutankhamen's strength as a military leader.

There are also more answers about how Tutankhamen died. One theory states that he was murdered, but Hawass, who performed a computerized tomography scan of Tutankhamen's mummy, said "You know, everyone thought that he was murdered."

"In the left leg was a fracture. It happened as an accident one day before he died."

The focus of the exhibit, however, remains on the objects from ancient Egypt.

"I believe they should put in mind one important thing," Hawass said. "But to believe we should be like the ancient Egyptians. We should learn from them. They ruled the whole earth with justice."