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How does a king travel anyway? A dead king, in this case. Or, to be really precise, a dead pharaoh. It's tempting to answer with that classic old punch line: "Very carefully."
In this case, that punch line also happens to be very true.
King Tut is about ready to roll up the red rug in California, where His Highness has been making a guest appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Just two days after Thanksgiving, Tut will start to be wrapped, boxed, crated and then hauled to Fort Lauderdale.
Very carefully.
You think it's easy getting a 3,300-year-old royal ready to hit the interstates? Just ask Irvin Lippman, executive director of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale.
"There's a whole team of 12 Egyptian curators who first will go to L.A. for packing, then come to the Museum of Art for unpacking," Irvin explains. The show's 130 objects will require about one week to pack, about the same to unpack. Four tractor-trailer trucks will carry everything across the country to Fort Lauderdale.
In charge of the whole operation? The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, a scholarly chap named Zahii Hawass, who enjoys an especially impressive title.
"He is the only one who, by his own account, speaks to the pharaoh," Irvin says. The museum director is kidding about that -- we think. "He certainly has written numerous books on the topic of Tut."
Hawass, pharaoh-communicator extraordinaire, will speak to the rest of us on December 15, the exhibit's first day. More than 500 people already have reserved their seats for his talk.
Haven't bought your tickets yet, to hear Hawass or at least to check out the Pharaoh's golden artifacts?
Tsk, tsk!
Or maybe we should say, Tut-tut!
In this case, that punch line also happens to be very true.
King Tut is about ready to roll up the red rug in California, where His Highness has been making a guest appearance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Just two days after Thanksgiving, Tut will start to be wrapped, boxed, crated and then hauled to Fort Lauderdale.
Very carefully.
You think it's easy getting a 3,300-year-old royal ready to hit the interstates? Just ask Irvin Lippman, executive director of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale.
"There's a whole team of 12 Egyptian curators who first will go to L.A. for packing, then come to the Museum of Art for unpacking," Irvin explains. The show's 130 objects will require about one week to pack, about the same to unpack. Four tractor-trailer trucks will carry everything across the country to Fort Lauderdale.
In charge of the whole operation? The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, a scholarly chap named Zahii Hawass, who enjoys an especially impressive title.
"He is the only one who, by his own account, speaks to the pharaoh," Irvin says. The museum director is kidding about that -- we think. "He certainly has written numerous books on the topic of Tut."
Hawass, pharaoh-communicator extraordinaire, will speak to the rest of us on December 15, the exhibit's first day. More than 500 people already have reserved their seats for his talk.
Haven't bought your tickets yet, to hear Hawass or at least to check out the Pharaoh's golden artifacts?
Tsk, tsk!
Or maybe we should say, Tut-tut!
posted by LauderBLOGGER at 9:53 AM
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