King Tut Museum

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Humn 1201 15 April 2009 The Exhibition of King Tutankhamun and Egypt King Tutankhamun and the Egyptian culture have been my favorite topics I have studied in my Expressions of Culture class so far. This is manly due to the fact that King Tut was easy to learn about because he was only famous for his tomb. That is easy on the brain, right? I have repeatedly pondered how someone can be regarded with such historical significance when he or she accomplished little during their reign? This question immediately left my brain when I visited the King Tutankhamun exhibit in Atlanta, GA at the Atlanta Civic Center on April 11th. Tutankhamun’s tomb was the only intact pharaoh burial that has been discovered, thus bringing it immense…show more content…
The exhibition manly deals with the 18th, 19th, 20th dynasties of ancient Egypt; or simply called the New Kingdom. The exhibit deals with the mummification of King Tutankhamun and his incredible tomb. This embodies ancient Egyptian culture’s idea of immortality. The story of Isis and Osiris led Egyptians to the practice of mummification. The idea of mummification is that in order for one to come back to life after death, their body has to be preserved. The story behind this myth is that Set, brother of Osiris, was jealous of Osiris and sought to kill him. Set came up with a detailed plan to kill his…show more content…
It gave me a picture to put with everything I have learned in class about Egypt. Since we did not spend much time on Tutankhamun in class, I learned many new things about his tomb. I did not know that the Egyptians took out the internal organs to preserve them separately from the core of the body. I also did not know they took out the heart, dried it, coated it, and put it back in the core for mummification. I did not like how there was no real climatic showcase. All the items were really interesting and I felt as if they were building up to a grandiose main event, but it never came to that. Most of the artifacts there, despite being original and new to me, did not seem to provide the significance that I expected for a brand new, hyped museum. I would have liked to seen replicas of the sarcophagus and the many levels of the cedar shrine that contained the sarcophagus. Overall, I give the exhibition four out of five stars and would recommend it to

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