[scott7278]

Tut Light, huh?

[bmwcyle]

Just another failed culture.

[Disambiguator]

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Tutmania? Not the Tut, but an incredible simulation.

[Sally'sConcerns]

Thanks for the report. I had seriously thought about arranging some time to go see the exhibit when it got to a city closer to me. I've always been fascinated by the Pharaohs.

I was very pregnant when the original Tut exhibit came to New Orleans so I wasn't able to go then.

[eastforker]

Wonder why they didn't exhibit all the things they did in the 70's?

[BurbankKarl]

That is the only culture in LA right now.

Is it better than going to the Getty and looking at 3 paintings on a huge empty wall?

[eddie65]

I'm going to a private party there tomorrow night. It'll be fun even if the exhibit sucks.

[rabidralph]

The famous gold bust of Tut? Not there. Tut's sarcophagus? Not there. The famous lion bed? Not there.

I wonder if any of his black relatives know where these items are :-)

[Aquinasfan]

What's the difference between this and 3,000 years from now someone digging up my body and putting it on display in a museum? A bigger tomb?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I saw the Ramses the Great exhibit and the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Dallas. My opinion of each was the same as yours.

[Bosco]

In '85 I saw the *entire* Tut exhibit in the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo for 75 cents. Entrance price was low but it was getting there that was expensive.

When we got to Cairo (drove from Israel), the government confiscated our hotel for some reason of another earlier in the day. A replacement was found in downtown Cairo - a beautiful 1/4 star hotel, the Hotel Tonsi. Main course consisted of chicken and stars soup and a forgettable roasted animal offering. The building was not entirely dedicated to human habitation, as we could hear the lowing of cattle and bleating of sheep as the elevator went by the floors where they were quartered.

But the exhibit was huge and saw lots of gold this-that-and-the-other.

On our flight out, we took TWA 847, piloted by Capt. John Testrake. Yep, same flight number and pilot as the one that was hijacked - we missed it by a couple of weeks.

[monkey]

Thanks for this post.

What's the best part of the Getty (other than finding it)?

[Ditter]

Too bad. I went to a museum in London in the early 70's and saw some fabulous things related to Tut and others. Egypt is the only place on the African continent that I would like to go.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Thank you for the heads up. I was going to fly up to Florida in November to catch it, but my plans just changed.

Thanks again for saving me the price of a plane ticket.

[bert]

How about the beautiful statue of the cheesecloth clad Nefertiti?

It is the best piece of sculpture I ever saw.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Try the Getty Center's new exhibition:

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits

The Apostle Paul

[AUsome Joy]

Tut-Tut!

[Smogger]

Have yous seen Ramses II? Although, I never saw the first Tut (not having been born) I was very impressed with Ramses II that made it to the Museum of Natural History in Denver after an extensive remodeling sometime in the late 80's early 90's. I have heard that the pieces in the Ramses II were much more abundant than the pieces in the original Tut exhibition. Any comment (if you have seen both?)

[TXnMA]

I saw the Tut exhibit in Seattle -- on a Boeing VIP courtsy ticket. IMHO, the atmosphere in the display room was awesome, and the artifacts stunning. The funeral mask was spectacular, but I was particularly smitten by the small (<2' tall) statue of Selket:

If the funeral mask and Selket are not in this show, I agree that it is decidedly inferior to its predecessor.