Special King Tut exhibit will be in Times Square through January 2011 (photo by Steve Garrin)
TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS
Discovery Times Square Exhibition
226 West 46th St. between Broadway & Eighth Aves.
Through January 2, 2011
Tickets: $19.50-$75 (children under four free)
888-988-8692
www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/kingtut
The mystery of the Boy King, Tutankhamun, has continued to grow ever since his tomb was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter for Lord Carnarvon. For the first time in more than thirty years, since “The Treasures of Tutankhamun” was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970s, King Tut (1341-1323 BCE) is back, in two exhibitions. The traveling show “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is currently in Denver and Times Square. The New York exhibit features some 130 artifacts, including burial objects, a childhood chair of Tut’s, a look at the time immediately preceding Tut’s reign, and a video narrated by Omar Sharif. Presented by National Geographic, the show runs through January 2.
Head of Tutankhamun, limestone, ca. 1336-1327 B.C.E. (courtesy Rogers Fund, 1950)
TUTANKHAMUN’S FUNERAL
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Egyptian Special Exhibitions Gallery
1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.
Tuesday – Sunday through September 6
Recommended admission: $20 adults, children under twelve free
212-570-3828
www.metmuseum.org
About 110 meters from where Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb, American archaeologist Theodore Davis had found storage jars in the Valley of the Kings in 1908, a collection that was later realized to be ritual objects from the mummification of the Boy King. In conjunction with the exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, the Met is showing “Tutankhamun’s Funeral” through September 6, a display of sixty bowls, bandages, jars, floral collars, and other items that give insight into the burial of King Tut and Egyptian funeral rites in general. The Met has also made available Herbert E. Winlock’s “Materials Used at the Embalming of King Tūt-‘ankh-Amūn,” with a new introduction by Dorothea Arnold.