King Tut Essay

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TUTANKHUMAN THE GOLDEN KING AND THE GREAT PHARAOHS Exhibition Experienced by Mary Tran at Minnesota Science Museum on Friday August 06, 2011 The Omni Theater: Shows are about discoveries’ of the mummies by Howard Carter. Howard had discovered King Tut and the 40 royal mummies including the 12 kings of Egypt all together in one tomb. The film tells secrete of pharaohs methods of processing mummification. Dr. Bob Brier the Egyptologist performs first human mummification in the Egyptian style since the pharaohs in order to test and extract DNA from the real mummies. The show was for 45 minute long. King Tut Exhibitions: The exhibits contain all the King Tut artifacts and King Tut himself that was found in the tomb. The replica of King Tut mummy was displayed, but most of the entire artifact was real. The artifacts were for King Tut afterlife usage. To name a few of the artifacts : Gold sandals, his chair, bed , the fan, servants, his pet cat, one of the coffinette container which has his head carving contain King Tut livers and organs. Little short documentary film shows of how scientist discovered King Tut tomb and the modern CT scan discoveries of King Tut bone and skull brutally fractures. The scientist believed that King Tut was involved in a brutally fighting that bring him to his death. Scientist was curious about King Tut father which they found through DNA testing on one of others mummies. Statues and carving of the royals’ pharaohs, jewelries including the great statues of King Tut were all there at the exhibit. Compares and contrasts the activity to similar activities from other eras studied in this course: To compared and contrast my King Tut exhibition experiences to the era that I have studied in this class period. It would be chapter one “The Ancient World”. King Tut exhibit and the information in “the book the creative

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