[freedumb2003]

My wife has made it clear we WILL be going.

Don't forget, a few trinkets is still historical. For those of us who can't or won't go to Egypt (since I would like to stay alive and I don't want to lie and say I am Canadian), we'll touch what we can.

[newzjunkey]

Just came back from the King Tut exhibit in LA. I saw the exhibit in '76, and have seen the Tut exhibit in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and have been to the Luxor Museum / Valley of Kings / Valley of Queens / Abu Simbel / etc.

It must be nice to have all that kind of exposure. I haven't so I thought more of the exhibit than you and your eager-to-please girlfriend. Still, I do agree it borders on fraudulent given that the actual number of Tut exhibit items are few. But the overall exhibit gives a good look at the workmanship of the ancient culture including a poke in the eye to western abortion-lovers in the form of one of the fetal death masks.

It wasn't worth the special trip north to L.A. but it wasn't a complete waste of time either. My understanding is none of the significant objects you complained about the exhibit lacking travel outside Egypt anymore. How long was your wait in the tent? We had 'anytime' tickets so we had barely a five minute wait.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Saw the "Tutankhamun Treasures" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It ran from mid Dec. '62 to mid Jan '63.

http://www.nga.gov/past/data/exh204.shtm

I'm looking at the catalog and this exhibition did not have anything bigger than a breadbox as well. What it did have was magnificently crafted objects of rare beauty. Unfortunately, I have look at the pictures to make that observation as I was only 10 at the time and my memory of the experience has faded over the years.

[windcliff]

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[HitmanLV]

My friend told me that part of the marketing campaign includes the slogan 'The King of Bling.' Please, somebody tell me that's not true!

I was a kid in nyc in '77 and saw the exhibit then, which was pretty awesome to my 9 year old sensibilities. A shame that this new US tour seems like a huge letdown.

In any case, it's a huge turnoff that some of the marketing i did see insisted that once this tour is over, the goodies would vanish back to Egypt forever. Yea, right, I wasn't born yesterday!! Hahaha!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Thinkin' Gal]

All in all, for us it was a waste of time. The price was OK (~$20.00 each), but it was probably worth ~$10.00 / person. If you have a free afternoon, and want to see a few second-rate Egyptian trinkets that may be related to Tut, then it's a way to kill a few hours.

That's too bad. Tut's not at the British Museum either, but it is bursting at the seams with Egyptian artifacts and so many sarcophagi (sp?) that it all becomes a blur, and that's only a small fraction of the place. Several visits are needed to take it all in. And it's free.

This week might be a bad time to drop by, however.

[fish hawk]

Would take a hell of a lot more than you described to get me to go to the hellhole called LA.