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Sunday, May 27, 2012
The Wenatchee World
Ancient Egypt plans long stay
IF YOU GO
Where: Pacific Science
Center, 200 2nd Ave. N.,
Seattle, at Seattle Center
The Associated Press
Info: pacificsciencecenter.org
SEATTLE — It’s been more
than 30 years since crowds of
people from around the Pacific
Northwest stood in long lines
at Seattle Center to see King
Tut, the boy king. The Pacific
Science Center is hoping the
pharaoh will generate the
same kind of enthusiasm this
year.
But here’s some news for
people who are hoping to meet
the mummy who inspired one
of the most famous Saturday
Night Live skits of all time:
You’ll have to fly to Egypt to
see him. King Tut has never
left his homeland.
The mummy is no longer
kept inside his elaborate coffin,
but he remains inside the tomb
in the Valley of the Kings,
according to the curator of this
exhibit, David Silverman an
Egyptologist and University of
Pennsylvania professor, who
describes the country as a
living museum.
King Tut has done very little
traveling since his death, but
as Steve Martin sang: “he gave
his life for tourism.”
That’s why Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mohammed
Ibrahim traveled to Seattle for
the exhibit opening instead of
staying home to vote in that
country’s first democratic
election.
“Today, history is being
written again,” Ibrahim said
at a press conference on
Wednesday. “It’s a great day
for us.”
Ibrahim told The
Associated Press he didn’t get
to vote in the election back
home but felt it was worth
the tradeoff because he felt he
could help his country more
by promoting tourism.
He hopes the exhibit will
inspire travel to Egypt, whose
economy could use the kind
of boost Seattle is likely to get
from this exhibit.
“Please, we need your
help. We need you to
support our revolution. We
need you to support our
movement toward peace and
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AP photos
The head of the inner coffin of Queen Meritamun is displayed during a preview of a King Tut
exhibit at Seattle Center Wednesday. Below are finger and toe protectors, left, and an unguent
vessel.
democracy,” Ibrahim said.
He also wants a lot of
people to see the Seattle
exhibit because the eight host
museums are sending more
than $2 million back to Egypt
to help build a new museum
in Giza to house the King Tut
artifacts and other statues and
art from thousands of years of
Egyptian history.
Objects that span and
explain that same period
of history are scheduled to
be on display at the Pacific
BL GS
Science Center through Jan. 6,
2013 — from stone statues of
Egyptian kings, their children
and servants to beautiful
jewelry and the mini coffin
that held King Tut’s stomach.
The museum focuses on the
history and culture of the time
period, but offers a little bit of
science and some wonderfully
gory pictures of Tut’s mummy
just outside the exhibit and
beyond the gift shop.
They items on display are
just a sample of what was
found inside King Tut’s tomb
in the 1920s and just two
repeats from the exhibit that
came to Seattle in 1978.
To gain a better idea of
the wealth of that discovery,
which many have called
the biggest archaeological
find in history, you’ll need
to make travel plans to visit
Egypt in 2015. That’s when
the traveling exhibit will be
added to the objects that have
never left Egypt in the new
museum.
Small children may be
bored in the dark, quiet
spaces of the Pacific Science
Center exhibit. But schoolage kids will find some things
to capture their attention,
including a small coffin used
to bury a royal cat and a video
that teaches visitors how to
read hieroglyphics.
The science center wants
people to know there won’t
be any long lines this time
because they are selling timed
tickets.
In 1978, more than 1.3
million people saw the King
Tut exhibit in Seattle.
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