More re Tutankhamun at the Franklin Institute

Setting record figures
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5135125
"Officials said Tuesday that more than 616,000 tickets for "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" have been sold or reserved since they went on sale in November. . . . Museum officials said the current exhibition, which featuring treasures found in the tomb of the Egyptian boy-king, is on track to draw 1 million visitors before it closes Sept. 30."

Disappointed by the Tutankhamun exhibition

http://tinyurl.com/2vhbw7 (philly.com)

"The King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute is dull, dark and disappointing. But at least the lines are long. More than 600,000 people viewed Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs in the show's first six weeks in Philadelphia. Rarely have so many paid so much to see an itty, bitty liver casket.
That was my sucker moment. I stood there, beholding the box that once stored Tut's bile, and began to feel rather poorly myself. Thirty-two bucks per ticket, plus parking and numbingly long lines, for this? Oy, I thought. His liver.
Call me a low-brow, a whiner, a Philistine. No offense taken: The original Philistines thought Pharaoh Ramesses III was tedious, too. So he smote them.
Not feeling appreciative of 3,000-year-old artifacts is a bit awkward. I knew I should appreciate the boy king's possessions."

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