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Probably the best-known tour was the Treasures of Tutankhamun from 1972 until 1981. Other exhibitions have included Tutankhamun Treasures in 1961 and 1967, Tutankhamen: The Golden Hereafter beginning in 2004, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs beginning in 2005, and Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs in 2008.
Nov. 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 exhibitions, and even an opera ...
The first musical concert held in the museum had Egypt's soprano Fatma Said along with United Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir [43] led by Nader Abbassi on 20 January 2023, [44] the concert had a number of foreign ambassadors and public figures from Egypt and abroad, and it received a great reaction from the Egyptian audience, specifically for ...
Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and ruled for about a decade c. 1355–1346 BCE. A majority of his reign was devoted to restoring Egyptian culture, including religious and political policies; his predecessor and father Akhenaten had altered many Egyptian cultural aspects during his reign, and one of Tutankhamun's many restoration policies included ...
Aug. 15, 1977: King Tut’s reign in Chicago ends More than 1.3 million people — at a rate of more than 1,000 per hour — viewed the King Tut exhibit while it was in Chicago.
Shock rocker Iggy Pop has lent his voice to a new documentary on Ancient Egyptian child king Tutankhamun. “Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition” simultaneously charts the history of the tomb’s ...
Yet Tutankhamun's burial goods barely fit into his tomb, so the Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley argues that larger tombs in the valley may have contained assemblages of similar size that were arranged in a more orderly and spacious manner. [100] This statuette of Tutankhamun standing on a panther closely resembles images from the tomb of Seti II ...
He is a key character in Christian Jacq's 1992 book The Tutankhamun Affair. [80] James Patterson and Martin Dugard's 2010 book The Murder of King Tut focuses on Carter's search for King Tut's tomb. [81] He appears as a main character in Muhammad Al-Mansi Qindeel's 2010 novel A Cloudy Day on the West Side. [82]