Egypt
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- Hawass Says That Tutankhamun Was Not Black
AFP Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour."Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation...
- More Re Tutankhamun Protest
http://tinyurl.com/35yywo (philly.com) More coverage on the recent protest re the Tutankhamun exhibition: "Molefi Asante, professor of African-American studies at Temple University, led a protest yesterday in front of the Franklin Institute claiming the...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition Draws Protestors
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2116673,00.html "A travelling exhibition on King Tutankhamun drew about 50 protesters in Philadelphia who denounced the popular display as racist. Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies...
- More On Issues Re Tutankhamun Reconstruction
http://tinyurl.com/7qnhc Yet more on the way in which Tutankhamun has been portrayed: "Even assuming that the sculptor had some scientific basis for determining 'the average' skin color of modern Egyptians, what would that have to do with the...
- Professor Protests That King Tut Was Black
http://tinyurl.com/aesq7 "Using forensics to make King Tutankhamun appear to be white is a move to remake him, like all things Egyptian, to fit a non-African image, according to Maulana Karenga, a popular Afrocentric scholar . . . . Karenga, the creator...
Egypt
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4581445/detail.html
"African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate . . . . Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse. All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit". See the article for more.
- Hawass Says That Tutankhamun Was Not Black
AFP Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour."Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation...
- More Re Tutankhamun Protest
http://tinyurl.com/35yywo (philly.com) More coverage on the recent protest re the Tutankhamun exhibition: "Molefi Asante, professor of African-American studies at Temple University, led a protest yesterday in front of the Franklin Institute claiming the...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition Draws Protestors
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2116673,00.html "A travelling exhibition on King Tutankhamun drew about 50 protesters in Philadelphia who denounced the popular display as racist. Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies...
- More On Issues Re Tutankhamun Reconstruction
http://tinyurl.com/7qnhc Yet more on the way in which Tutankhamun has been portrayed: "Even assuming that the sculptor had some scientific basis for determining 'the average' skin color of modern Egyptians, what would that have to do with the...
- Professor Protests That King Tut Was Black
http://tinyurl.com/aesq7 "Using forensics to make King Tutankhamun appear to be white is a move to remake him, like all things Egyptian, to fit a non-African image, according to Maulana Karenga, a popular Afrocentric scholar . . . . Karenga, the creator...