MoAW presents
TUTANKHAMUN “Wonderful Things”
Treasures From The Pharaoh’s Tomb
From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt, this dazzling collection of reproductions of Tutankhamun’s legendary treasures recreates the richest archaeological find of all time. Accompanied by a lively text, 124 replicas of the pharaoh’s sacred and personal possessions (including his magnificent state chariot, golden shrines, beds, thrones, jewelry, spectacular funerary mask, mummy case, and royal mummy) along with associated artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun’s reign reconstruct both the historic discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter and the life and times of Egypt’s celebrated boy king. An innocent puppet-ruler, Tutankhamun was caught in the midst of a dangerous and profound political, spiritual, and artistic revolution against the entire pantheon of ancient Egyptian gods by the first monotheistic religious cult in history. The pharaoh’s much overlooked African heritage is explored, along with the religious magic of the sacred objects, and the infamous curse of Tutankhamun. This classic exhibition vividly brings to life the enigmatic opulent age of 18th Dynasty Egypt.
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"...strange animals, statues and gold—everywhere the glint of gold." - Howard Carter
From 1961 to 1981 the traveling Tutankhamun exhibition from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, toured the United States, Canada, Japan, France, England, West Germany, and the Soviet Union. After 20 years of wear-and-tear on the priceless objects (55 in all), the tour was concluded and the collection returned to Egypt. Superbly reproduced, this magnificent collection of 124 legendary artifacts faithfully preserves the grandeur and mystery of the most astonishing archaeological treasure ever discovered.
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Bust of Tutankhamun on a Lotus.
While Howard Carter was locked out of the tomb by the Egyptian government, an official inventory of its separately stored contents revealed this painted wooden bust of the young pharaoh, undocumented and previously unknown to the authorities, suspiciously concealed inside a small wooden box. Bearing the misleading emblem of the English vintners Fortnum & Mason, it was obviously prepared for shipping. Carter’s embarrassed explanation was that the sculpture had been found in the rubble filling the tomb’s corridor (where it had presumably been abandoned in antiquity by the fleeing robbers) along with a number of other objects that were “not yet fully registered.”
The portrait faithfully captures Tutankhamun’s elongated platycephalic skull, a common feature among members of the inbred royal family of Amarna.
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A touching likeness of the young pharaoh, the sculpture represents him as the solar deity emerging from the corolla of the primordial lotus at the moment of creation. As a ritual object it symbolizes his divine rebirth every day with the rising sun. After more than 30 centuries of darkness, the pharaoh’s long night ended in 1922 with the first gleam of sunlight from Howard Carter’s breach in the tomb’s sealed entrance: At first I could see nothing, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. Placed there before the rise of Athens and Rome by priests whose ancient civilization believed that to speak the names of the dead is to make them live again, these wonderful things invoked an astonished worldwide reception of the long forgotten boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, who spent his life making images of the gods” and whose name indeed lives again as the most celebrated of Egypt’s ancient god-kings. |
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ON DISPLAY AT THE
MUSEUM OF ANCIENT WONDERS
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FACES OF AFRICA:
A Mystical View of
Tribal Heritage
(38 Replica Masks and Sculptures)
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TUTANKHAMUN:
"Wonderful Things"
Treasures From The Pharaoh's Tomb
(124 Egyptian replicas)
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MESOZOICA:
The Age of Dinosaurs
(Approximately 100 fossil cast dinosaur elements and fully-mounted skeletons from around the world.)
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LUCY:
The Story of Human Origins
(Courtesy of the Institute of Human Origins and the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa)
On view exclusively at the
Museum of Ancient Wonders
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