Tutankhamun's Funeral
Egypt

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.




- 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...

- 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....

- Tutankhamun's Funeral
Arts Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) An excellent review of the exhibitions, with photographs. Tutankhamun's Funeral in the spacious first-floor Egyptian Special Exhibitions Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (March 15-September 6, 2010) highlights...

- 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,...



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