Long live king Toot.
Posted on 06/08/2005 4:49:47 AM PDT by echoBoomer
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."
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If you really want to get these guy's goat, point out that Cleopatra was a pure-blooded Greek, descended from generations of Ptolomic kings who practiced incest.
Long time no see.
Sure....ain't everyone?
I have naturally long dark lashes so just a tad of liner is all I need. Well a little lip gloss of course.
Yes, she was a Greek. But the Nation of Islam types and many others of their ilk, are convinced she was black.........
I'm lucky to Freep 2 hours a week right now. I can get back to normal by mid summer or so. I miss everyone. How have you been?
What happened to that boys head?
He looks like an egg that has a resting pause in it.
Just got "Everyone Loves A Nut" for my birthday. Vintage vinyl, original wrapping.
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Keep the liner on your upper lid only.
Using it on the bottom only makes you look like a hooker.
I must say that pistol you carry really brings out the color in your eyes.
New Likeness of King Tut on Display
Austin American Statesman | Austin American Statesman
Posted on 09/30/2002 10:03:56 PM PDT by Asmodeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/760458/posts
I'm doing good enough.
I have missed your acerbic comments.
I haven't hit a live one in a long time.
They screwed up on that face.
Tut died rather young. Their depiction is of an older man.
Next they'll want them to show how the black africans had mastered flight 5000 years ago and should be shown flying around the pyramids in textbooks.It's been done. No, really. But perhaps you knew? :')
The real King Toot!
If the busts were made from reconstructions of the mummy itself, what is the problem? I doubt that the scientists who did the reconstructions hung a sign on the statues that said, "King Tut wasn't negroid, he was a causcasoid."
yeah he does
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