King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists

NBC 4 ^ | 4:03 pm PDT June 7, 2005

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King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As White Removed.

LOS ANGELES -- African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate.

The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse.

All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit.

"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa."

[ASA Vet]

Mutt!

[Osage Orange]

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy!"

---Bill Clinton

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

Actually the 1st Amendment guarantees you the right to demand anything you want. It doesn't guarantee that anyone will listen to you, nor does it guarantee that people won't laugh in your face.

Michael Frazier

[Hi Heels]

I don't think he looks black or white. Kinda gray and dirty lookin' if you ask me.....

[MikefromOhio]

Tut's dirty butt needs a SHOWER!!

[Hi Heels]

"egg sucking dog"

Johnny Cash fan?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I only use a little liner myself.

[Hi Heels]

huh. King Tut looks like a girl with a disfigured head.

[Hi Heels]

Prolly don't wanna get him wet. Just dust him off a little......

[evets]

[Conspiracy Guy]

They didn't mention my great grandfather at all.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Baby

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yep.

[Carry_Okie]

This is what happens when PC revisionist history infeststs the public skools.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Looks like a space alien to me.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Looks like a dumpster dweller doesn't he.

[Politicalmom]

Well, you have CLASS, of course.

[LexBaird]

besides where I was born is now a golf course.

So, that makes you a Duffer-American. Your cultural heritage is bad plaid polyester pants.

[SoCal Pubbie]

This whole "the ancient Egyptians were black" thing is pathetic. The Afrocentrists reject using modern day Egyptians as a guide, since they claim the original inhabitants who built the pyramids, etc, were displaced when the Arabs invaded after the rise of Islam.

In fact, the Ancient Egyptians were much like they are today. The posters who have pointed out the artistic depictions of the people, including statues, wall paintings, and the footstool already mentioned, are right on. And let us not forget the sarcophagus itself shows his face!

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/2815/tut.html

The black people of ancient Egypt came from Nubia, which is now Sudan. The Kingdom of Kush, as it was known, arose form the same area and actually took over Egypt at one point, around 750 BC. There was a close relationship between Kush and Egypt, including pyramid building in Nubia!

http://www.crystalinks.com/nubia.html

However, Tut lived a thousand years before!

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Cleopatra may have been Egyptian as a result of being born there, racially she was Greek.