Egypt
- 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...
- Beating The Heat At The Field
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-field27.html Article about how the Field Museum in Chicago is taking measures against the heat, during the Tutankhamun exhibition: "The centrifugal chiller cooling system brought relief to exhibit curators...
- Tutankhamun In Chicago
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060503/cgw081.html?.v=5Somewhat inevitably, there is bound to be a whole plethora of articles in anticipation of the opening of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs, which is due to open in Chicago on May 26th. This article...
- Tutankhamun - Chicago Tickets Go On Sale
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-met24.html Tutankhamun madness is up for grabs in Chicago: "Tickets go on sale today at 9 a.m. at the Field Museum for the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition. The exhibit, which debuts...
- Success Of Mummies Exhibition At Bowers Museum
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-king-tut,0,296790.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds This is a actually an article about public reactions to the Tutankhamun exhibition, but a couple of lines at the end of the article compare it with...
Egypt
More on Tutankhamun exhibition
The dark side of King Tut
http://www.suntimes.com/output/galleries/cst-ftr-tut26.html
An article looking at some of the darker aspects of the Eighteenth Dynasty, which the author detects beneath the glitter and beauty of the artefacts: "the fabled wealth and advanced culture of ancient Egypt were largely fueled by centuries of imperialist military policy, cutthroat domestic politics, cruel subjugation of enemies and mass enslavement of prisoners of war. Moreover, the existence of the Tut artifacts today is the result of a state religion that combined a major death fixation with an intense materialism that led the elite to pack up their worldliest goods for the trip to the afterlife, complete with forced labor by servants. . . . .To stroll through the exhibit -- which has been beefed up with dozens of additional objects from the tombs of Tut's royal ancestors -- is to be regularly treated, if you look closely enough, to the unselfconscious trumpeting of official brutality."
Protest outside Tutankhamun exhibit
Protest outside Tutankhamun exhibit
http://tinyurl.com/flug4 (Chicago Tribune)
"Under the shadow of immense gold banners heralding the opening of the King Tut exhibit, dozens of Coptic Orthodox Church members from across the Chicago area gathered Thursday outside the Field Museum to protest religious discrimination against fellow Christians in Egypt."
See the above article for the full story.
- 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...
- Beating The Heat At The Field
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-field27.html Article about how the Field Museum in Chicago is taking measures against the heat, during the Tutankhamun exhibition: "The centrifugal chiller cooling system brought relief to exhibit curators...
- Tutankhamun In Chicago
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060503/cgw081.html?.v=5Somewhat inevitably, there is bound to be a whole plethora of articles in anticipation of the opening of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs, which is due to open in Chicago on May 26th. This article...
- Tutankhamun - Chicago Tickets Go On Sale
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-met24.html Tutankhamun madness is up for grabs in Chicago: "Tickets go on sale today at 9 a.m. at the Field Museum for the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition. The exhibit, which debuts...
- Success Of Mummies Exhibition At Bowers Museum
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-king-tut,0,296790.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds This is a actually an article about public reactions to the Tutankhamun exhibition, but a couple of lines at the end of the article compare it with...