Egypt
The Guardian, UK (Jonathan Jones)
- Exhibition: Replicas Of Items From King Tut's Tomb (frankfurt, Germany)
Stars and Stripes A mummy, a chariot, numerous carvings and statues are among the items spotlighted in a King Tut exhibit in Frankfurt, Germany. The items are replicas of the artifacts discovered in his tomb 90 years ago. Intricately crafted...
- More Re Tutankhamun's Chariot
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) ONE of the chariots found in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun travelled to New York last week to meet up with other relics of the golden boy king at the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition, Nevine...
- General News: The Legacy Of Howard Carter
Free Internet Press Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief? Dawn was breaking as Howard Carter took up...
- Hats, Suits And Shovels: Discovering Tut Through Photos
emorywheel.com The splendors of Tut’s tomb are just the beginning. Behind the golden facades lies the story of the boy king of Egypt, and also a story of the excavation of his tomb, thousands of years later. This is the prime focus of Wonderful Things:...
- More Re Previously Unrecorded Part Of Tutankhamun Treasures
Egypt State Information Service An Egyptian archaeological mission managed to find a previously undiscovered part of Tutankhamun treasures. The new discovered part was left by Howard Carter who discovered Tutankhamun tomb near the burial chamber at...
Egypt
Exhibition: Tutankhamun – His Tomb and His Treasures,
The Guardian, UK (Jonathan Jones)
"What can you see?" asked the people behind archaeologist Howard Carter as he peered through a newly dug hole into the tomb chamber of the boy king Tutankhamun in 1922. "Wonderful things!" gasped Carter. And it was true.
Up to then it seemed that all the tombs of the pharaohs of Egypt in the Valley of the Kings had been ransacked by graverobbers long ago: archaeologists found mummies, but no gold. Somehow this young ruler's tomb had never been touched. Carter found its treasures piled around the walls inside the secret chamber, perfectly preserved in the sealed vault, just as they looked the day the tomb was closed. Now you can see them, quite as perfect, in Manchester – with one catch.
The exhibition Tutankhamun – His Tomb and His Treasures, which opened at the Trafford Centre on Friday, boasts the very room that amazed Carter 88 years ago. Golden beds, chairs, chariots, chests and portraits are heaped as they were when he peeked through that tiny aperture: the death mask of Tutankhamun, one of the most astonishing works of art on earth, is here. The only trouble is, none of it is real. All the marvels are reproductions, modelled with digital technology and expertly crafted to mimic the originals, at a cost of £4.4m.
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- Exhibition: Replicas Of Items From King Tut's Tomb (frankfurt, Germany)
Stars and Stripes A mummy, a chariot, numerous carvings and statues are among the items spotlighted in a King Tut exhibit in Frankfurt, Germany. The items are replicas of the artifacts discovered in his tomb 90 years ago. Intricately crafted...
- More Re Tutankhamun's Chariot
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) ONE of the chariots found in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun travelled to New York last week to meet up with other relics of the golden boy king at the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition, Nevine...
- General News: The Legacy Of Howard Carter
Free Internet Press Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief? Dawn was breaking as Howard Carter took up...
- Hats, Suits And Shovels: Discovering Tut Through Photos
emorywheel.com The splendors of Tut’s tomb are just the beginning. Behind the golden facades lies the story of the boy king of Egypt, and also a story of the excavation of his tomb, thousands of years later. This is the prime focus of Wonderful Things:...
- More Re Previously Unrecorded Part Of Tutankhamun Treasures
Egypt State Information Service An Egyptian archaeological mission managed to find a previously undiscovered part of Tutankhamun treasures. The new discovered part was left by Howard Carter who discovered Tutankhamun tomb near the burial chamber at...