Monday, June 11, 2007

Exhibition: Tutankhamun Wrapping Cloth

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/11/eng20070611_382923.html
A special exhibition of Pharaoh of Egypt Tutankhamen's treasures opened Sunday evening at the Exhibition Hall of the Egyptian Museum in down town Cairo.
The exhibition, which displays Tutankhamen's amulets and other original burial objects as well as modern painting collections of a German artist, will last for three months at the museum and show pictures of the tomb of the king when it was discovered back in 1922, according to the Museum curator Wafaa al-Sediq, who attended the opening ceremony.
The objects coming from Tutankhamen's mummy bandages have been moved from their normal place in the Tutankhamen Hall into the Exhibition Hall for the special exhibition, which comes within the framework of the program of the German-Egyptian year of Science and Technology 2007.

http://tinyurl.com/3x5wuc (elmasla.com)
"The exhibition, which is organized in collaboration with activity of Art History at the German Nuns School in Cairo and lasts 3 months includes pictures from the drawings of Howard Carter who discovered the tomb of Tout Ankh Amoun, drawings by the German artist Herbert Grim who is living in Cairo since August 2005."

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