Egypt
SILive (Michael J. Fressola)
- Exhibition: More Re Tutankhamun's Funeral
examiner.com 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...
- 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...
- To Bury A Pharaoh
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) Met curator Dorothea Arnold takes a fresh look at the leftover materials from Tutankhamun's mummification. More than a century ago, a rather unspectacular discovery was made in Egypt's Valley of the Kings....
- Exhibition: Body Parts At The Brooklyn
Forbes.com (Sarah Wolff) Slideshow Besides ensuring tourism and providing storylines for scores of feature films, the mystique of ancient Egypt also launched a specific sort of museum show that has become de rigueur for large institutions: the blockbuster....
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things
Michael C Carlos Enews, February 2009 The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun”...
Egypt
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 powerful installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Even people who aren’t keen on ancient Egypt, know that Tutankhamun’s tomb, which came to light in 1922, was the most intact royal cache ever recovered, a haul of solid gold objects, jewelry, clothing, furniture, weaponry, chariots and works of art. Today it fills 13 galleries in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
(In 1979, the touring extravaganza “Treasures of Tutankhamun” was so popular tickets were awarded by lottery. The show taught the Metropolitan and other institutions the art of the modern museum blockbuster.)
The show has objects (embalming equipment, dishes and plates, water jugs, linen kerchiefs, floral collars and the remains of a meal) recovered in 1907 in a burial pit, not far from Tutankhamun’s tomb, which would not be discovered for another 15 years.
- Exhibition: More Re Tutankhamun's Funeral
examiner.com 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...
- 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...
- To Bury A Pharaoh
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) Met curator Dorothea Arnold takes a fresh look at the leftover materials from Tutankhamun's mummification. More than a century ago, a rather unspectacular discovery was made in Egypt's Valley of the Kings....
- Exhibition: Body Parts At The Brooklyn
Forbes.com (Sarah Wolff) Slideshow Besides ensuring tourism and providing storylines for scores of feature films, the mystique of ancient Egypt also launched a specific sort of museum show that has become de rigueur for large institutions: the blockbuster....
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things
Michael C Carlos Enews, February 2009 The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun”...