my parents were able to get discount tickets to the king tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art and asked if we'd like to go. married to a professor, who happens to specialize in history, and being a bit of a nerd myself, we agreed and worked the trip into our already busy schedule (i had worked a lot of extras and we already had plans on friday night) and went to see the much talked-about exhibit on thursday night (4/30/09). we learned a lot about the history of the pharaohs and the process of mummification, entombment, jewelry making and other such daily-life activities in egypt during and around the time of king tutankhamun's reign. the only truly disappointing part of the whole experience was that you don't get to see any of king tut's sarcophagi (sarcophaguses?) or death masks since those are no longer allowed to leave egypt, apparently. we did get to see the jewelry and dagger he was burried with, though, and lots of other items from his tomb (including games, perfume bottles, more jewelry, furniture, and canopic jars). the most interesting part was finding out that the young pharaoh was burried within 6 encasements (rectangular boxes that were placed over his sarcophagus) and 3 sarcophaguses (?) *and* a death mask -- 10 layers before you even got to his actual mummified body, which then had other jewels and trinkets wrapped up between the layers of cloth! the whole thing took up the space of a small bathroom! crazy!!! unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures inside any part of the exhibit, so i only have pics of us in the gift shop afterward...sorry!
the super-classy souvenirs. don't YOU want a tissue from king tut's nose?they also had bobble-heads...though i don't have a pic
dad and matt try on the hats
a serious pose...pretending to be a sarcophagus
but there are smiles in this one!
do we look cool, or what?! well....we are KINGS :)
1 comment:
jes, i like the pics.
remember when ms. rouse gave us the extra credit assignment to mummify a chicken? did you ever do that?
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