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...King Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh who ruled 14th century B.C. Egypt for nine years and died at 18, reigns again-this time over Chicago...
...predictable that the "Treasures of Tutankhamen," a traveling exhibition of precious objects discovered in a tomb in 1922, would cause a furor at the Field Museum of Natural History. In Washington, D.C., where the show began its run of six U.S. cities last December, the wait to get in averaged five hours. On its first day in Chicago, 2,000 people were in line when the doors opened. The first Tut fanciers had arrived...
There are two ancient Egyptians whose names everyone knows: Queen Nefertiti and her son-in-law King Tutankhamen. Nefertiti is a limestone bust, Tutankhamen a treasure. Nothing in his reign, which began around 1361 B.C., when he was ten, and ended with his death at 18, could have secured immortality for this shadowy boy-king. King Tut owes his fame to the accident that grave robbers never looted his tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It remained intact until Nov. 26,1922, when an English archaeologist named Howard Carter chipped through a door...
What he saw was a glimpse of the world's most legendary treasure: the stupendous array of gold shrines, jewels, portrait masks, gilded pharaonic furniture and sarcophagi that had gone down with Tutankhamen into the dark. It was the first Egyptian royal tomb found almost intact. Tutankhamen's treasure was eventually rehoused in the Cairo Museum. Parts of it made excursions to France, Japan and the U.S. Two weeks ago, the biggest collection of individual Tutankhamen objects -some 50 pieces-ever to leave Egypt went on display at the British Museum...
...English, normally phlegmatic about art, greeted the event with ecstasies of Tutankhamenophilia. Tut appeared on posters, postcards, carrier bags and 56 million commemorative stamps; the B.M.'s supply of replicas of Tutankhamen's jewelry was sold out on the first day. Bottlenecks in the museum caused three-block queues outside it. The museum hopes that when the exhibit closes six months hence, 1.5 million people will have seen it. That would net about $1.3 million, most of it earmarked for a UNESCO fund to restore the temples on the island of Philae in Egypt, now submerged...