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The Smithsonian described the exhibit as one of the initial "blockbuster exhibits" which sparked the museum community's interest in such exhibitions. [15] After the six U.S. tour locations were named, San Francisco citizens bombarded the Mayor's Office with inquiries as to why the tour was not coming there.
Allan Tannenbaum/GettyNov. 4, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, and soon the world will be inundated with Tut mania: books, TV programs, museum ...
After Dallas the exhibition moved to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, followed by the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York City. [173] Tutankhamun exhibition in 2018. The exhibition visited Australia for the first time, opening at the Melbourne Museum for its only Australian stop before Egypt's treasures returned to Cairo in ...
Many exhibitions of replicas have also taken place, beginning with a set made for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. [126] Beginning in 2011, the objects from the tomb were gradually transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. [127] Upon its opening, the museum is planned to display all the tomb's artefacts. [128]
Relieved from its 3,000-year duty of guarding the door, a 6-foot-tall statue of King Tutankhamen, made of wood and covered in gold, also came from the tomb, photos from the museum show.
A piece of jewelry recovered from Tutankhamen's tomb was exhibited in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, on Oct. 22, 2007. The pectoral, probably designed to be worn on the breast, displays solar and ...
Much of the revenue from the exhibitions went to support the monuments' relocation [228] and to pay for improvements to the Egyptian Museum. [229] The exhibitions also served other diplomatic functions, helping to improve Egypt's relations with Britain and France after the Suez Crisis in 1956, and with the United States after the Yom Kippur War ...
Tutankhamun — more commonly called King Tut — was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled from 1332 to 1323 B.C. The original artifacts were discovered in 1922. Tutankhamun — more commonly called King ...