Egypt
- 500,000 Visitors To Tutankhamun At The Field
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4416927The last report I posteed about ticket sales in Chicago announced that they had just past 400,000 visitors at the end of June. This very brief report announces that another 100,000 visitors...
- Exelon Chief's Sarcophagus At The Field
http://tinyurl.com/h67g7 (chicagotribune.com) "A nicely painted but none-too-fancy 2,200-year-old Egyptian coffin that stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble late in May has joined the Field Museum's permanent exhibits on daily life in Egypt in...
- More On Tutankhamun Exhibition
The dark side of King Tuthttp://www.suntimes.com/output/galleries/cst-ftr-tut26.htmlAn 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...
- Exhibition: Unveiling Tutankhamun In Chicago
http://tinyurl.com/m3cju (chicagotribune.com) This page appears to be available without the usual compulsary registration. It covers the official unveiling of the Tutankhamun exhibiton in Chicago on Wednesday, which was attended by Zahi Hawass amongst...
- 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...
Egypt
Update: The Exelon sarcophagus
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-tut26.html
Further to yesterday's posting about the Excelon boss who upset Zahi Hawass by keeping an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus in his office: "A Chicago executive who found himself in unexpectedly hot water over antiquities this week defused a potentially sensitive international incident Thursday by offering to relinquish possession of an ancient Egyptian coffin. Exelon CEO John Rowe, an amateur historian, has long kept a 2,600-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus in his office, bought in 1998 from a Chicago antiquities dealer. But he came under sudden attack for this Wednesday at a preview event for "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," the blockbuster King Tut exhibit opening today at the Field Museum, of which Exelon is a major sponsor."
See the above page for the full story.
- 500,000 Visitors To Tutankhamun At The Field
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4416927The last report I posteed about ticket sales in Chicago announced that they had just past 400,000 visitors at the end of June. This very brief report announces that another 100,000 visitors...
- Exelon Chief's Sarcophagus At The Field
http://tinyurl.com/h67g7 (chicagotribune.com) "A nicely painted but none-too-fancy 2,200-year-old Egyptian coffin that stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble late in May has joined the Field Museum's permanent exhibits on daily life in Egypt in...
- More On Tutankhamun Exhibition
The dark side of King Tuthttp://www.suntimes.com/output/galleries/cst-ftr-tut26.htmlAn 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...
- Exhibition: Unveiling Tutankhamun In Chicago
http://tinyurl.com/m3cju (chicagotribune.com) This page appears to be available without the usual compulsary registration. It covers the official unveiling of the Tutankhamun exhibiton in Chicago on Wednesday, which was attended by Zahi Hawass amongst...
- 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...