{"id":534593,"date":"2010-04-19T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-3633152794658721918"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:55:36","slug":"exhibition-tutankhamuns-funeral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534593","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition:  Tutankhamun&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/entertainment\/arts\/index.ssf\/2010\/04\/tuts_funeral_small_show_big_im.html\">SILive<\/a> (Michael J. Fressola)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that \u201cTutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs\u201d is headed this way (opening Friday in the Times Square Discovery Center), it\u2019s the perfect time to attend \u201cTutankhamun\u2019s Funeral\u201d a small but disproportionately powerful installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Even people who aren\u2019t keen on ancient Egypt, know that Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb, which came to light in 1922, was the most intact royal cache ever recovered, a haul of solid gold objects, jewelry, clothing, furniture, weaponry, chariots and works of art. Today it fills 13 galleries in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>(In 1979, the touring extravaganza \u201cTreasures of Tutankhamun\u201d was so popular tickets were awarded by lottery. The show taught the Metropolitan and other institutions the art of the modern museum blockbuster.)<\/p>\n<p>The show has objects (embalming equipment, dishes and plates, water jugs, linen kerchiefs, floral collars and the remains of a meal) recovered in 1907 in a burial pit, not far from Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb, which would not be discovered for another 15 years.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-3633152794658721918?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILive (Michael J. Fressola) Now that \u201cTutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs\u201d is headed this way (opening Friday in the Times Square Discovery Center), it\u2019s the perfect time to attend \u201cTutankhamun\u2019s Funeral\u201d a small but disproportionately powerful installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even people who aren\u2019t keen on ancient Egypt, know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}