Egypt
- Tutankhamun Is A Big Draw Right To The End
The Philadelphia Inquirer With only one weekend to go, the Franklin Institute wanted to cram every last second it could into its nearly eight-month King Tut exhibit. So it did just that. The doors to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs have...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Already A Success In Philadelphia
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a4_5tutfeb04,0,1523762.story"On Saturday, a sold-out crowd of 5,000 people passed through the exhibit of nearly 130 treasures from the tomb of the boy king and other royal relatives from the 18th Dynasty.Museum...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition In Chicago
http://tinyurl.com/qqpts (Chicago Tribune) An article looking at the work that is going into making the Chicago leg of the exhibition work smoothly. The focus is mainly on the work of the McMillan Group, whose team have tailored the exhibition to suit...
- Tutankhamun's Last Hoorah
http://www.laist.com/archives/2005/11/15/king_tuts_last_hoorah.php "It’s a 24-hour Tut party! King Tutankhamun’s last stand! First extended from November 15th until November 20th, now LACMA has announced their wildly popular Tut exhibit will stay...
- Replica Of Tomb Of Tuthmosis Iii
http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=697342005An exact replica of the tomb of Tuthmosis III will form the centrepiece for an exhibition in Edinburgh (UK) entitled Immortal Pharaoh: The Tomb of Tuthmosis III, at the City Arts Centre. "The replica of the...
Egypt
The midnight hour, and Tut's a sellout
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"If the Los Angeles County Museum of Art threw its doors open around-the-clock to accommodate last-minute visitors to its pricey but popular King Tut show, who would show up at 2 a.m. on the last day? The answer: Robert Boggs, 26, of Torrance. At that wee hour, Boggs stood in solemn admiration before a gray granite sculpture of Tuthmosis IV and his mother. Tuthmosis wore the usual ancient Egyptian get-up. Boggs wore a black cardboard top hat bearing the words DEAD MAN WALKING. 'This is my bachelor party,' he said in a respectful whisper. 'It's all been a huge surprise.' He was the only apparent groom-to-be in the house, but Boggs and his fellow revelers were far from alone. At an hour when most bar-hoppers are beginning to contemplate vomiting or a Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's, hundreds of eleventh-hour browsers had paid $30 each to fill the museum galleries". See the article on the Los Angeles Times Calendar Live.com for the full story".
Another article on the same subject appears on the San Gabriel Valley Tribune site at:
"If the Los Angeles County Museum of Art threw its doors open around-the-clock to accommodate last-minute visitors to its pricey but popular King Tut show, who would show up at 2 a.m. on the last day? The answer: Robert Boggs, 26, of Torrance. At that wee hour, Boggs stood in solemn admiration before a gray granite sculpture of Tuthmosis IV and his mother. Tuthmosis wore the usual ancient Egyptian get-up. Boggs wore a black cardboard top hat bearing the words DEAD MAN WALKING. 'This is my bachelor party,' he said in a respectful whisper. 'It's all been a huge surprise.' He was the only apparent groom-to-be in the house, but Boggs and his fellow revelers were far from alone. At an hour when most bar-hoppers are beginning to contemplate vomiting or a Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's, hundreds of eleventh-hour browsers had paid $30 each to fill the museum galleries". See the article on the Los Angeles Times Calendar Live.com for the full story".
Another article on the same subject appears on the San Gabriel Valley Tribune site at:
http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_3236057
- Tutankhamun Is A Big Draw Right To The End
The Philadelphia Inquirer With only one weekend to go, the Franklin Institute wanted to cram every last second it could into its nearly eight-month King Tut exhibit. So it did just that. The doors to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs have...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Already A Success In Philadelphia
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a4_5tutfeb04,0,1523762.story"On Saturday, a sold-out crowd of 5,000 people passed through the exhibit of nearly 130 treasures from the tomb of the boy king and other royal relatives from the 18th Dynasty.Museum...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition In Chicago
http://tinyurl.com/qqpts (Chicago Tribune) An article looking at the work that is going into making the Chicago leg of the exhibition work smoothly. The focus is mainly on the work of the McMillan Group, whose team have tailored the exhibition to suit...
- Tutankhamun's Last Hoorah
http://www.laist.com/archives/2005/11/15/king_tuts_last_hoorah.php "It’s a 24-hour Tut party! King Tutankhamun’s last stand! First extended from November 15th until November 20th, now LACMA has announced their wildly popular Tut exhibit will stay...
- Replica Of Tomb Of Tuthmosis Iii
http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=697342005An exact replica of the tomb of Tuthmosis III will form the centrepiece for an exhibition in Edinburgh (UK) entitled Immortal Pharaoh: The Tomb of Tuthmosis III, at the City Arts Centre. "The replica of the...