Tutankhamun

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• The Master Silk Printer

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 129
  The Master Silk Printer  of April 1923, a trade publication in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library collection, joined in the “Egyptomania” phenomenon and featured a new line of printed fabrics inspired by the Tomb of King Tut. Pattern books of Egyptian ornament became available that designers could reference ...
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• A rare treasure discovered in Egypts Valley of the Kings

  
  Captain Greybeard - Travel Advice - Mirror.co.uk — Authority: 130
  No time to relax yesterday on Spirit of Adventure. We docked in Safaga in Egypt - with Thomson Celebration just along the quay - and most of the passengers had an early start just after breakfast, setting off in a convoy of coaches for the three-and-a-half-hour drive to Luxor. It was a proper convoy, with an armed ...
  3 days ago

• Hope the neighbors dig trumpet playing.

  
  On The Curb — Authority: 468
  One more day of NaBloPoMo!  Then, maybe I’ll be in the mood to write. Hmm, what fun non-writey thing can I pull out of the hat?  How about a minute-ish of my son practicing his trumpet in the front yard?  I know my brother J checks in periodically and will get a kick out of some Gav trumpeter action.  J played ...
  6 days ago

• Tomb of King Tut finally Opened!!! “Craze” for Egyptian Begins!

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 129
  In November of 1922, after eight long years, British archaeologist Howard Carter finally succeeded in finding the 3,000 year old tomb of King Tutankhamen. It took more than a year of careful excavation through multiple doorways, chambers, and staircases before they were able to approach the sarcophagus that held ...
  1 week ago

• Sometimes You Gotta Hang In There

  
  Dave Saunders — Authority: 115
  On this day in 1922 archaeologist Howard Carter and his patron Lord  Carnarvon became the first people in more than 3,000 years to enter the tomb of Egypt’s child pharaoh, Tutankhamun otherwise known as King Tut. This is an interesting story on Thanksgiving, because this is a story which nearly did not happen. ...
  1 week ago

• The King Tutorial Live Presentation

  
  A Little Touch of History — Authority: 107
  November 21, 2009: Barry Cauchon I want to tell folks in the Toronto, Southern Ontario and Western Tier of Upper State New York that the King Tut exhibit has opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. It will run from now until April 18, 2010 and is called Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tut-tini: King Tut Martini

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 132
  Image by Sanandreas via Flickr The Fairmont Royal York hotel has invented a regal cocktail to mark the return of King Tut’s treasures at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Tut-tini by bartender Mike Astins: Fresh ice 1 oz vodka (the recipe calls for Grey Goose) 1/2 oz Goldschläger 1 oz butter ripple liqueur Splash ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Lost Persian Army Returns

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 127
  photo credit: h.koppdelaney The place is the famous Siwa Oasis in Egypt. The time is 525 B.C.  Ancient Egypt is but a former shadow of itself. Tutankhamun has been dead and buried for 800 years (and his tomb plundered twice already by now). Slowly but surely, Egypt’s power was fading as it was ...
  2 weeks ago

• History on our doorstep

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 164
  Take a quick hop to Egypt and discover wonders of the ancient world, before cooling down by the breezy Red Sea, writes Paula Fentiman From the clubhouse of the new Championship-standard Madinat Makadi golf course, I looked across a stunning landscape of green fairways and lakes linked by connecting waterfalls to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Egypts Famous Tomb of Tutankhamun Set for 5-Year Renovation Project by Getty

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 156
  Egypts antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 a five year project to restore the Tomb ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tomb of King Tut (KV 62) will undergo major restoration

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 132
  Image via Wikipedia KV 62, the famous tomb of King Tutankhamen will undergo a five-year project to clean and restore the wall paintings. The restoration project is a collaboration between Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Getty Conservation Institute. This is not the first time the Los Angeles ...
  3 weeks ago

• Egypt and Getty institute to embark on 5 year renovation of King Tut’s tomb (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt and the Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.
  3 weeks ago

• King Tut’s tomb set for five year renovation project

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  A close up view of the Viscera Coffin of Tutankhamun is on display during the Tutankhamun And The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs Exhibit Opening at LACMA on June 15, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
  3 weeks ago

• Touring the Carter Museum

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 604
  Download audio file (1104095.mp3) Download MP3 In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled upon one of the most famous finds in Egyptology — the tomb of Tutankhamun. Today Carter’s house by the Valley of the Kings was opened as a museum. The BBC’s Yolande Knell went on a tour of the new museum.
  4 weeks ago

• Mummy Powder and the Household Use of the Egyptian Dead

  
  History Blog — Authority: 120
  Beginning in the 12th century, Arab physicians began to prescribe their patients a most unorthodox remedy: the ground remains of mummies procured from Egyptian tombs. As Islamic Arabs of the day did not regard the ancient Egyptians as ancestors, the practice was widely accepted and so-called mummy powder was in sold ...
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• November 4 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  1429   Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier . 1677  The future Mary II of England married William, Prince of Orange . They would later jointly reign as William and Mary . 1783  Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 receives its première performance in Linz, Austria. 1825   Erie Canal was ...
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