{"id":541978,"date":"2010-04-23T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2277455"},"modified":"2010-04-23T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T11:15:00","slug":"tut-gets-extreme-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541978","title":{"rendered":"Tut gets extreme makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Andreas F. Voegelin<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR>
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Click for slideshow:<\/A><\/STRONG> A coffinette that contained Tutankhamun’s mummified
liver is exquisitely crafted, even though the container is only 4 inches (11
centimeters) wide and 16 inches (39.5 centimeters) long. Click on the picture to
see the full coffinette and other artifacts from New York’s King Tut exhibition.

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King Tutankhamun’s treasures have been on the road for a long, long time: Over the past five years, precious artifacts have been criss-crossing America<\/A>, heading over to London, then back to Egypt, then back to America. Everywhere those artifacts have gone, museumgoers have gone crazy over the boy-king, just as they did during a traveling Tut exhibit<\/A> in the 1970s. (Remember Steve Martin’s classic Tut tribute<\/A>, circa 1978?)<\/P>
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Tut mania continues to reigns supreme, especially now that the big tour has reached New York City<\/A>, its last U.S. stop.<\/P>
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“A different generation of Tut mania is everywhere,” Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, observed during a walkthrough of the “King Tut NYC” exhibition in midtown Manhattan.<\/P>
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But the Tut of today – or at least the image that Hawass and other experts have of the “golden boy”<\/A> from 3,300 years ago – is not the Tut of 30 years ago, or even five years ago. High-tech studies of the mummy have led to an extreme makeover in the story that’s told by the golden treasures.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andreas F. Voegelin Click for slideshow: A coffinette that contained Tutankhamun’s mummified liver is exquisitely crafted, even though the container is only 4 inches (11 centimeters) wide and 16 inches (39.5 centimeters) long. Click on the picture to see the full coffinette and other artifacts from New York’s King Tut exhibition. King Tutankhamun’s treasures have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541978","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\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}