Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
- Tutankhamun Arrives At Melbourne, Australia
Herald Sun (Simon Plant) Right now, it's as barren as an Egyptian desert. But as Mark Lach traverses the wide open spaces of Melbourne Museum's touring exhibition hall, another world looms before him like a mirage. A world of giant chambers where...
- Carter's Souvenirs To Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb formerly in the private collections of Howard Carter and Lord Caernarvon have returned to Egypt after nearly nine decades, reports Nevine El-Aref It seems that the spell of the Golden...
- Dallas Gives King Tut A Royal Welcome
There are far too many Tutankhamun articles to publish all of them but here are a couple which celebrate the opening of the Golden Age in Dallas. Dallas Morning News (David Flick and Michael Granberry) As the saying goes, King Tut wasn't born in...
- Exhibition: More Re Tutankhamun In Austria And The U.s.
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs, presently at Vienna, Austria's Ethnological Museum (March 9-September 28, 2008), is indeed coming to the United States. Under the title Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...
Egypt
Tutankhamun's last leg?
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
Although Houston has fallen under the spell of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, it is widely thought that a large number of visitors could come to the exhibition because they think this might be the last chance to see Tutankhamun's treasured collection, since the tour might soon come to an end and the objects return to Egypt.
Mark Lach, senior vice-president and creative director of Arts and Exhibitions International, one of the show's for-profit organisers, told Houston News that Egypt was allowing the objects to travel to raise funds for the restoration of monuments and artefacts and to build a $700 million museum in Cairo. Once the Grand Egyptian Museum is built, he continued, "this is probably the last time they'll travel, and they'll go to their permanent home there."
Since the Tutankhamun exhibition began its European-American tour in 2004, some critics in Egypt have questioned the legality of sending such priceless artefacts abroad, while in the host countries there have been questions as to whether the collection is appropriate for art museums.
The voices of critics in Egypt grew increasingly louder after the January Revolution, with some Egyptologists calling for no more exhibitions to be sent abroad. They claim that touring exhibitions are a threat to the objects and decrease the number of tourists who might otherwise come to Egypt to see them.
- Tutankhamun Arrives At Melbourne, Australia
Herald Sun (Simon Plant) Right now, it's as barren as an Egyptian desert. But as Mark Lach traverses the wide open spaces of Melbourne Museum's touring exhibition hall, another world looms before him like a mirage. A world of giant chambers where...
- Carter's Souvenirs To Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb formerly in the private collections of Howard Carter and Lord Caernarvon have returned to Egypt after nearly nine decades, reports Nevine El-Aref It seems that the spell of the Golden...
- Dallas Gives King Tut A Royal Welcome
There are far too many Tutankhamun articles to publish all of them but here are a couple which celebrate the opening of the Golden Age in Dallas. Dallas Morning News (David Flick and Michael Granberry) As the saying goes, King Tut wasn't born in...
- Exhibition: More Re Tutankhamun In Austria And The U.s.
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs, presently at Vienna, Austria's Ethnological Museum (March 9-September 28, 2008), is indeed coming to the United States. Under the title Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...