Egypt
Star-Telegram (Andrew Marton)
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- Profit, Not Learning, Drives 'tutankhamun'
SFGate (Kenneth Baker) With photos. Among people with a professional interest in the arts, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opens today at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, will merely deepen the tarnish on the reputation of the...
- Anubis Arrives
11alive.com The Egyptian d Anubis has arrived to make way for the U.S. premiere of "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs." Crews began installation of the five-ton, 25-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god near 13th and Peachtree...
- Conference: Third Eye Conference To Explore King Tut's Ethnicity
Dallas News What was the ethnicity of King Tut? Because Egypt is on the northern region of the African continent, some black culture enthusiasts vigorously proclaim long-standing theories that black Africans can claim the young pharaoh as a racial kinsman....
- Exhibition: King Tut's Arrival In Dallas Mostly Remains A Mystery
The Dallas Morning News (Michael Granberry) With only four days to go, the Dallas Museum of Art is working feverishly to brace itself for an exhibition that 1 million people might come to see. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opens Friday,...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun And The Golden Age In Dallas
Mercury News Tickets for the King Tut exhibit opening this fall at the Dallas Museum of Art are on sale. The exhibit, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," is making an encore visit to the United States after a two-year tour that drew nearly...
Egypt
A look at how Egypt has influenced Western pop culture
Star-Telegram (Andrew Marton)
With today’s splashy opening of the Dallas Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," it would be shortsighted to associate Egypt and King Tut only with things ancient, archaeological or generally irrelevant to today.
This show that celebrates Egypt’s historic bigwig gets us reflecting on how different aspects of pop culture owe something either to Egypt or to the king himself.
Let’s face it: There may be no more Texas-size sign of how Egyptian legend and lore have seeped into the Metroplex than the sight of the State Fair’s Big Tex sharing his mass appeal with the Egyptian figure of Anubis, whose 25-foot-tall, 5-ton wolf’s-head-man’s-body presence hovers over the fair’s deep-fried proceedings.
The following is an arbitrary list of how King Tut and Egyptology have swept in like a Nile breeze over our pop culture lives.
See the above page for the full story.
- Profit, Not Learning, Drives 'tutankhamun'
SFGate (Kenneth Baker) With photos. Among people with a professional interest in the arts, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opens today at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, will merely deepen the tarnish on the reputation of the...
- Anubis Arrives
11alive.com The Egyptian d Anubis has arrived to make way for the U.S. premiere of "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs." Crews began installation of the five-ton, 25-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god near 13th and Peachtree...
- Conference: Third Eye Conference To Explore King Tut's Ethnicity
Dallas News What was the ethnicity of King Tut? Because Egypt is on the northern region of the African continent, some black culture enthusiasts vigorously proclaim long-standing theories that black Africans can claim the young pharaoh as a racial kinsman....
- Exhibition: King Tut's Arrival In Dallas Mostly Remains A Mystery
The Dallas Morning News (Michael Granberry) With only four days to go, the Dallas Museum of Art is working feverishly to brace itself for an exhibition that 1 million people might come to see. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opens Friday,...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun And The Golden Age In Dallas
Mercury News Tickets for the King Tut exhibit opening this fall at the Dallas Museum of Art are on sale. The exhibit, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," is making an encore visit to the United States after a two-year tour that drew nearly...