'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' coming to Discovery Times Square Exposition

New York Daily News ^ | March 24, 2010 | Erica Pearson

[mentor2k]

Get ready to walk like an Egyptian - King Tut is on his way back to the Big Apple.

Tickets went on sale Tuesday for an exhibit of artifacts from the boy pharaoh's tomb, opening April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition.

To mark the occasion, former Mayor Ed Koch welcomed a 25-feet-tall, black-and-gold statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis, which floated on a barge past the Statue of Liberty to arrive at the South Street Seaport.

King Tut was a huge hit the last time he was here, bringing 1.8 million visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979, when Koch was hizzoner.

The new show, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," has more than twice the number of artifacts. Fifty of Tut's 3,000-year-old treasures - from his gold crown to cosmetic containers - will be on display.

So will the discoveries scientists have made about the boy king using CT scan technology.

The exhibit, which is now at San Francisco's de Young museum, is making its final U.S. stop in New York and will run until January.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes. I saw it at the De Young in December. Very well done.

-PJ

[mentor2k]

Anubis was the patron god of embalmers. Son of Osiris.

Osiris was the Egyptian god of the dead.

Actually, did you know Osiris took over as God of the Dead from Anubis in ancient Egyptian mythology. Anubis was the original God of the Dead.

See: Gods of Ancient Egypt

I'm glad you see my point about the suitcase. So many other in this post danced over it.

[SunkenCiv]

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