Egypt
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- Exhibition: The Funeral Of Tutankhamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With 20-photograph slideshow. Creating a burial as spectacular as that of the pharaoh Tutankhamun required a vast amount of preparation. The exhibition Tutankhamun’s Funeral at New York’s Metropolitan Museum...
- Clues From Leftover Bandages Of Tutankhamun
MSNBC (Rossella Lorenzi) With photos King Tutankhamun's mummy was wrapped in custom-made bandages similar to modern first-aid gauzes, an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed. Running from 4.70 meters to 39 centimeters...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun's Funeral
SILive (Michael J. Fressola) Now that “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is headed this way (opening Friday in the Times Square Discovery Center), it’s the perfect time to attend “Tutankhamun’s Funeral” a small but disproportionately...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun's Funeral
Art Daily In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate,...
- Tutankhamun's Funeral
Interesting exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tutankhamun's funeral made up of mostly objects found by Theodore Davis in Kv 54 in 1908. The Metropolitan has a nice online display of the highlights....
Egypt
Exhibition: More re Tutankhamun's Funeral
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The year is 1908.
Barely 110 meters away from the young pharaoh Tutankhamun’s yet-unopened tomb lies a small cache of jugs, linens, bowls, shrouds and floral collars.
In amongst all the strewn objects stands a wealthy American man of about 60, an amateur archaeologist, hoping, like everyone else at the time, to find the next unopened tomb in the Valley of the Kings. This group of objects was not it.
The American was Theodore Davis, who had been conducting excavations at that time for 6 years. If only Davis knew how close he was to the treasures of a forgotten pharaoh – how history would have changed!
As it was, the cache Davis discovered contained many of the items used at Tutankhamun’s funeral, giving archaeologists a critical insight into the ancient Egyptian rite of mummification. Davis however, unable to comprehend the importance of his work, was unimpressed, disappointed even, with his findings, and offered them, with the Egyptian Antiquities Authority’s permission, to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Met acquired some 40-odd artifacts from the cache, and this is what is currently on display.
- Exhibition: The Funeral Of Tutankhamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With 20-photograph slideshow. Creating a burial as spectacular as that of the pharaoh Tutankhamun required a vast amount of preparation. The exhibition Tutankhamun’s Funeral at New York’s Metropolitan Museum...
- Clues From Leftover Bandages Of Tutankhamun
MSNBC (Rossella Lorenzi) With photos King Tutankhamun's mummy was wrapped in custom-made bandages similar to modern first-aid gauzes, an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed. Running from 4.70 meters to 39 centimeters...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun's Funeral
SILive (Michael J. Fressola) Now that “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is headed this way (opening Friday in the Times Square Discovery Center), it’s the perfect time to attend “Tutankhamun’s Funeral” a small but disproportionately...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun's Funeral
Art Daily In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate,...
- Tutankhamun's Funeral
Interesting exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tutankhamun's funeral made up of mostly objects found by Theodore Davis in Kv 54 in 1908. The Metropolitan has a nice online display of the highlights....