Egypt
There are far too many Tutankhamun articles to publish all of them but here are a couple which celebrate the opening of the Golden Age in Dallas.
Dallas Morning News (David Flick and Michael Granberry)
statesman.com (Shelley Emling)
- Secrecy Key As King Tut Exhibit Rolls Out Of Dallas
Denton Record-Chronicle (Scott K. Parks) Now, a veil of secrecy is descending upon the 130 priceless Egyptian antiquities that constituted "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" at the Dallas Museum of Art. Event organizers don't want anyone...
- Exhibition: Golden Tut Rules
Tulsa World (Brandy McDonnell) He was just a boy when he became king and only a teenager when he died mysteriously, but people's fascination with King Tut endures more than 3,000 years after his death. The ancient Egyptian ruler's burial riches...
- 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,...
- Tickets Go On Sale For Dallas King Tut Exhibit
The Earth Times Following the success of the first U.S. tour, which drew nearly 4 million visitors and broke records at each of the four museums it visited from June 2005 through September 2007, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" will return...
- Exhibition: Tut's Mixture Of Kitsch And Class Draws Crowds In London
The Dallas Morning News (Michael Granberry) Tickets for the Golden Age exhibition, at The O2 (London) until the end of August 2008, will go on sale on Monday for the Dallas leg of the tour, which runs from October 3rd 2008 to May 17th 2009 at the Dallas...
Egypt
Dallas gives King Tut a royal welcome
There are far too many Tutankhamun articles to publish all of them but here are a couple which celebrate the opening of the Golden Age in Dallas.
Dallas Morning News (David Flick and Michael Granberry)
As the saying goes, King Tut wasn't born in Texas, but he got here as soon as he could.
Judy Pearce admired the hieroglyphics on the gilded coffin of Tjuya on Friday, the opening day of 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' at the Dallas Museum of Art.
In this case, it took 33 centuries.
But Friday's arrival of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" at the Dallas Museum of Art got a warm greeting from the locals.
Wearing a striped King Tut headdress, Lynn Jones of Mesquite got in line at 6:30 a.m. – an hour and a half before the doors opened.
A self-described history buff, Ms. Jones said she bought her Dallas tickets as soon as she heard they were available and had seen the exhibit two previous times in Los Angeles.
"When I saw it in LA, it was great," she said. "I loved it."
Her favorite part of the exhibit was "a gold coffin," she said.
"It's just amazing that this stuff is still around."
Aaron Scrimager, 33, a Navy diver, arrived a few hours behind Ms. Jones, but he had farther to travel, from Japan. He came to the show with Rie Yoshimaru, 33, who now lives in Australia.
Mr. Scrimager said he and his family tried to attend the "Ramses the Great" exhibition at Fair Park in 1989 but could never get in.
They had no intention of missing King Tut.
statesman.com (Shelley Emling)
Mark Lach, the celebrated designer of the Tutankhamun exhibits, admits that some have panned the latest Tut display for being a bit too "theme park-y."
But as "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" makes its way to the Dallas Museum of Art, he argues that with so many stunning relics to see, no Hollywood gimmicks could possibly detract from its splendor.
"There's no question that exhibits are becoming more theatrical, but you can never allow theater to be emphasized more than the objects themselves," said Lach, senior vice president of Arts and Exhibitions International, the Ohio-based company that negotiated the U.S. tour agreement with Egypt.
"Even the most traditional of museums use better lighting that's more theatrical than it was 20 years ago," he said.
"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" drew nearly 4 million visitors during its two-year tour of four cities that ended in September 2007.
That tour was the successor to the King Tut spectacle of the 1970s that ushered in the era of blockbuster museum shows.
The exhibition opened at the Dallas Museum of Art on Friday, the first stop of a much-anticipated three-city encore tour.
- Secrecy Key As King Tut Exhibit Rolls Out Of Dallas
Denton Record-Chronicle (Scott K. Parks) Now, a veil of secrecy is descending upon the 130 priceless Egyptian antiquities that constituted "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" at the Dallas Museum of Art. Event organizers don't want anyone...
- Exhibition: Golden Tut Rules
Tulsa World (Brandy McDonnell) He was just a boy when he became king and only a teenager when he died mysteriously, but people's fascination with King Tut endures more than 3,000 years after his death. The ancient Egyptian ruler's burial riches...
- 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,...
- Tickets Go On Sale For Dallas King Tut Exhibit
The Earth Times Following the success of the first U.S. tour, which drew nearly 4 million visitors and broke records at each of the four museums it visited from June 2005 through September 2007, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" will return...
- Exhibition: Tut's Mixture Of Kitsch And Class Draws Crowds In London
The Dallas Morning News (Michael Granberry) Tickets for the Golden Age exhibition, at The O2 (London) until the end of August 2008, will go on sale on Monday for the Dallas leg of the tour, which runs from October 3rd 2008 to May 17th 2009 at the Dallas...