He's got a condo made of stone-o...

[HeyMrTeleMan]

My family and I are celebrating our first Christmas ever here at our own home, after 31 years of going to MIL's house. She passed away, and we've invited the family HERE to celebrate this year. What to do to entertain them? Good thing the KING TUT exhibit is in town. We are all attending the exhibit, on Monday, December 22nd at Atlanta's Civic Center <kingtut.org>. We'll also have the 3D movie and audio tour for our viewing and audio enjoyment! I was able to score the coveted tickets today.

This is the very first stop the King Tut exhibit is making in America, because of the generous, um, generosity of the Carlos Museum at Emory University. "The Carlos" bought (along with a whole collection of Egyptiana) what was later to be discovered to be the mummy of Ramses I - father of Seti, and grandfather of the great Ramses II. (We were inches from his body when we saw the exhibit!) The museum promised Egypt that it would return the remains if it turned out it was indeed a Pharaoh. There was a BIG deal made of it and a whole PBS documentary of the discovery and ultimate return to Egypt. The Egyptians rewarded Atlanta with the first stop of the tour.

Man, I'm psyched. My wife and I were in Washington DC the last time the exhibit was here, but the lines were 8 hours long and we didn't get in. Now we have a tour time and will go right in with a scheduled time. This may be the closest I come to the fourth item on my "Bucket List"-seeing the pyramids. Like I said, I'm psyched...

Try to catch it if you can. Trips to Egypt seem so remote...(where's that beating a dead camel smiley when you need it?)

HMTM

[cvansickle]

He gave his life for tourism...

[mge80]

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This is the very first stop the King Tut exhibit is making in America,

I am virtually certain my daughter saw it in Dallas last month. I remember her calling me from Dallas discussing it. (And yes, I do recall breaking into "King Tut...he's my favorite honky...funky Tut...buried with his donkey....,etc". I don't think she got it.)

[cvansickle]

I remember when the Tut exhibit toured America in the 70s. That's why Steve Martin recorded his tribute song in the first place.

[mge80]

Here's some info from the exhibit's website:

"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" is the renowned exhibition that has drawn 5 million visitors worldwide. Currently on view in London, the exhibition returns to the United States in a three-city encore tour opening at the Dallas Museum of Art, October 3, 2008-May 17, 2009. The other cities for the tour have not yet been announced. The exhibition was previously presented at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Contemporary Art, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, and The Franklin in Philadelphia.

Tutankhamun The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs is a new exhibition that will make its North American debut in Atlanta on November 15, 2008 and will continue onto Indianapolis in June of 2009.

The exhibition features 50 objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun including the gold sandals that adorned the mummies feet and a beautifully adorned canopic jar that mummified his internal organs.

In addition to Tutankhamun, the exhibition’s artifacts highlight many of the most significant rulers of ancient Egypt such as Khefren, whose great pyramid is the only remaining structure of the seven wonders of the ancient world and Hatshepsut, the queen who became king.


So, I guess the other two cities besides Dallas are Atlanta and Indy, with the exhibit being somewhat different there than it was in London and Dallas.