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- 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...
- 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...
- 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: 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, sodium sulphate, and sodium chloride that occurs naturally in Egypt), bags of sawdust, floral collars, and pieces of linen with markings from years 6 and 8 during the reign of a then little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was given six of the vessels and a good part of their contents in 1909.
In time, Herbert Winlock, curator and field director of the Metropolitan's Egyptian excavations and in the 1930s Director of the Museum, came to realize that the natron and linen were the embalming refuse from the mummification of Tutankhamun. He also suggested that the animal bones, pottery, and collars might have come from a funeral meal. Winlock's analysis was an important clue that led to Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb some 110 meters away.
Opening March 16 at the Metropolitan Museum, the exhibition Tutankhamun's Funeral will explore the materials and rituals associated with the burial of the pharaoh. The presentation will include some 60 objects, primarily from the Metropolitan's own collection.
There's a rather sad photograph on the page. It shows Hawass gesticulating with one arm and the other leaning in Queen Tiye's glass cabinet, with a wall of photographers surrounding him. In some ways it is ludicrous to be sentimental about the dead, but there's precious little dignity here for the dead, and no respect from the living. Poor Tiye.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....