A giant Anubis visitors to the King Tut exhibit. Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit. Discovery Times Square Exposition. The 130 artifacts on display range from a calcite vessel and a golden headdress inlaid with colored glass and semiprecious stones to one of four coffinettes used for the pharaohs mummified organs... P1170538
When Susan and I booked our Bermuda cruise for Labor Day weekend departure from New York, we knew wed drive up the day before. What would we do in the city on Saturday evening? Seeing a Broadway musical would be our usual choice. But, Susan noted that the traveling exhibit Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs would be at the Discovery Times Square Exposition exhibition center. Wed enjoyed the Egyptian exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in November and the King Tut exhibit seemed like a good
Both Susan and I remembered the famous King Tut traveling exhibit of (The Treasures of Tutankamun).She had seen it in Washington, DC, and I in Los Angeles (long before we met). It spawned a huge nationwide including Steve Martins famous King Tut skit on Saturday Night Live. It was time again for Tut.
Leaving Springfield at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, we made our way up through Maryland. Lunch was at our usual stopping place at the Cracker Barrel in Elkton, Maryland. From there, it was a dash across Delaware, over the Delaware Bridge, and then on the New Jersey Turnpike to Secaucus. We arrived
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit. Discovery Times Square Exposition. The 130 artifacts on display range from a calcite vessel and a golden headdress inlaid with colored glass and semiprecious stones to one of four coffinettes used for the pharaohs mummified organs... P1170534
Our timed Tut tickets were for 6:30 p.m. We caught the 5:10 New Jersey Transit bus for the Port Authority and were standing in Times Square by 6:00. (The bus driver took a new route, via Union City, NJ, to the Lincoln Tunnel.) The Discovery Times Square Exposition is located on 44th Street across from Shubert Alley. We were there early, but were able to go right in. Photography was not allowed in the exhibit itself, but I was able to get a few photos of the outside, including the statue of Anubis, protector of the dead, and introductory posters.
The exhibit is the first time since 1988 that Egypt has permitted Tutankhamun related artifacts to leave the country. (Items were damaged during an exhibition in Germany.) This collection has more pieces than the 1970s show, but the items are smaller. (The iconic gold mask exhibited then was not part of this show.) A theme of the current exhibit is the modern forensic and DNA studies that have been performed on King Tuts remains. The studies
King Tut exhibit poster: Golden coffin lid. The Tutankhamun Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit. Discovery Times Square Exposition. The 130 artifacts on display range from a calcite vessel and a golden headdress inlaid with colored glass and semiprecious stones to one of four coffinettes used for the pharaohs mummified organs... P1170546
have established his parentage and relation to rulers of the New Kingdom. He was the son of Amenhotep IV (later known as Akhenaten) and his was Tuthmosis I. Tutankhamun (ca. 1341 BC) came to the throne at age 9. His father had instituted the worship of a single deity, Aten, in place of the many traditional Egyptigan deities headed by Amon, leading to some turmoil in the world of the New Kingdom. Young Tutankhamun, advised by three viziers, reinstated the traditional religion and priesthood. Tutankhamun died at age 19 and was forgotten until his intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
The exhibit opens with a view of Egypt of the Tuthmosid era. Objects from the tombs of Tuts ancestors and relatives are on display, showing the power and influence Egypt had attained in that period.
