Road Trip Ahead to see King Tut

[tzarinna]

I don't know how I missed it in my area. So now I'll have to travel north to see "tut" exhibit.

Did anyone get the chance to see it?

http://www.fodors.com/wire/archives/002212.cfm

"Tut" Exhibit Comes to Philadelphia
"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," the blockbuster exhibit otherwise known as "King Tut," makes its long-awaited appearance at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on February 3, 2007. The show remains up there through September 30, 2007.

The exhibition includes more than 130 priceless treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other royal tombs, all between 3,000 and 3,500 years old. Included are 50 of Tutankhamun's burial objects, including his royal diadem -- the gold crown discovered encircling the head of the king's mummified body -- and one of the gold, inlaid coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs.

The balance of the show features tombs of other royals along with precious wood pieces and various stone ceremonial objects. Only a few of these 130 artifacts were seen in the 1977 Tut exhibition that toured the U.S., and many have never before left Egypt. Tickets for the show are on sale now. For more information, visit www.fi.edu.

 

[Tyrinus]

Saw this exhibit while it was in Chicago. Overrated. Since it was mainly artifacts out of his relatives tombs, and they didn't even have one of Tut's sarcophogi on display, I felt ripped off. Tut was buried in multiple sarcophogi, they could have spared one for the exhibit.

 

[tzarinna]

Really?
I'm still going.

 

[Tyrinus]

I found it disappointing, I was looking forward to it too. I would have been happy with just a sarcophogus.

On the subject of events I've seen in Chicago recently. The musical Wicked is excellent.

 

[Cyclops]

Funky Tut? Buried in his jammies?

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

I am going to that show as well. However I do think it is messed up that the show didn't make a stop in DC.

 

[tzarinna]

So the tour is on.
Anyone else going?

 

[Goddessreicho]

OH MY GOD ITS STAYING UNTIL SEPT!!!! Sweet I live 15 mins away in Jersey. I am so great.

 

[tzarinna]

Still not packed but I'll be leaving in a couple of hours.
I'll be staying here,30 mins from the exhibit. No private rooms but it's just an over night stay.
I'm getting so excited.

 

[FRUITY]

All the school kids so sick of books
They like the punk and the metal band
When the buzzer rings (Oh-Way-Oh)
They're walking like an Egyptian

All the kids in the marketplace say:
Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo...
Walk like an Egyptian.

♥

 

[tzarinna]

^That made me smile.

Cause I'm in a pretty foul mood. Worst trip ever.
I'm not leaving the house for the rest of the year. outs:

 

[tzarinna]

Okay,who hijacked the Hype!?