The tour is organized by National Geographic, AEG Exhibitions and Arts
and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian
Supreme Council of Antiquities
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The scans of Tutankhamun that will be featured in the exhibition
were captured through the use
of a portable CT scanner, donated by
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three-dimensional picture of
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found when Howard Carter discovered the
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occurring
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The scanning of Tut's mummy
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Groundbreaking CT scans of the celebrated
pharaoh King Tut will be
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tour of the United States on June
16, 2005, at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA).
Tutankhamun was one of the last kings
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museum draws
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These stone, faience and wooden pieces from burials before Tut's reign
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Treasures from Tutankhamun
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United States during a seven-city tour from 1976 to 1979, which
included LACMA and set traveling exhibition attendance records with
some eight million visitors
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These never-before-seen
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other dramatic images and video footage. They also are
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Tickets for the exhibition will be on sale to the public
March 3
through the end of the exhibit's stay in Los Angeles on Nov.
The extensive collection
of more than 130 treasures from the tomb
of Tutankhamun, other Valley of the Kings tombs and additional
ancient
Egyptian sites will draw visitors back in time with inventive design
to explore and experience
the world and times of King Tut and his
contemporaries.
Location: LACMA is located at 5905
Wilshire Boulevard, Los
Angeles, CA 90036.
Among those interviewed are confessed killer Ezekiel
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"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" group rates start
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Key items include Tutankhamun
's royal diadem -- the gold crown
discovered encircling the head of the king's mummified body that
he
likely wore while living -- and one of the gold and precious stone
inlaid canopic coffinettes
that contained his mummified internal
organs. Coxe Jr.m.; Friday
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Tutsi forces, the
Rwandan Patriotic front, were finally able to stop the killing, the toll was
overwhelming
. With survivors and
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professor
of Egyptology and curator-in-charge, Egyptian Section, University of
Pennsylvania Museum, who
also helped curate the 1970s tour.
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council
of
Antiquities and director of the Giza and Saqqara Pyramids, is writing
the exhibition companion
book, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the
Pharaohs," and a children's book, "Tutankhamun: The
Mystery of the Boy
King," both to be published by National Geographic in June 2005.
LACMA co-curators
Nancy Thomas and Kathlyn Cooney, both trained
Egyptologists and art historians, are working as part
of the
curatorial team to develop the installation and review, edit and
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For information on LACMA tickets, please call
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addition to the staggering number of Tutsis executed, at
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Hutu power structure were
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