http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564409.html
An article looking at archaeology, not just Egyptology, and what it seeks to achieve. It focuses on Caroline Rocheleau, a curatorial research fellow at the N.C. Museum of Art who helped put together the new Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art From the British Museum for its Raleigh run:
An article looking at archaeology, not just Egyptology, and what it seeks to achieve. It focuses on Caroline Rocheleau, a curatorial research fellow at the N.C. Museum of Art who helped put together the new Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art From the British Museum for its Raleigh run:
"A girl might dream about the glorious moments of discovery -- the tomb of King Tutankhamun, a Greek civilization that predated Homer, or the Madaba Map, a mosaic of the oldest known Holy Land map. But an archaeologist's fascination with ancient people runs deeper than that, sustaining interest in a field that extracts the big picture from small shards of culture.
Most people wouldn't commit to long, hot days sifting through layers of civilization. But they are more than willing to pay for the privilege of seeing ancient artifacts in museums. Before "The Treasures of Tutankhamun" toured the world in the 1970s, the word "blockbuster" wasn't in the museum vocabulary. Nearly 8 million Americans cued up to see the King Tut artifacts then.
Passion continues to run high. The five-city "Temples and Tombs" tour, which features 85 objects covering 3,000 years, overlaps with a new King Tut exhibit now in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, "The Past Is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum" is a yearlong display of ancient objects from the Mediterranean that were given to the museum last year. And "Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum" drew from the UNC-Chapel Hill museum's collection."
The story is accompanied by the following:
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564342.html
Most people wouldn't commit to long, hot days sifting through layers of civilization. But they are more than willing to pay for the privilege of seeing ancient artifacts in museums. Before "The Treasures of Tutankhamun" toured the world in the 1970s, the word "blockbuster" wasn't in the museum vocabulary. Nearly 8 million Americans cued up to see the King Tut artifacts then.
Passion continues to run high. The five-city "Temples and Tombs" tour, which features 85 objects covering 3,000 years, overlaps with a new King Tut exhibit now in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, "The Past Is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum" is a yearlong display of ancient objects from the Mediterranean that were given to the museum last year. And "Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum" drew from the UNC-Chapel Hill museum's collection."
The story is accompanied by the following:
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564342.html
It is a little hair-raising to see Belzoni described as an archeaologist, but the above page has a list of "archaeologists associated with prominent excavations", amongst them Belzoni, Flinders-Petrie, Carter and, of course, Lara Croft and Indiana Jones. Make of it what you will!
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