If you going to the encore tour of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.
You might be disappointed...
Opening on October 3, 2008, at the Dallas Museum of Art, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs provides insight into the life of Tutankhamun and other royals of the 18th Dynasty (1555–1305 B.C.). All of the treasures in the exhibition are between 3,300 and 3,500 years old.
Tutankhamun was one of the last kings of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty and ruled during a crucial, turmoil-filled period of The boy king died under mysterious circumstances around age 18 or 19, in the ninth year of his reign (1323 B.C.).
Tutankhamun was one of the last kings of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty and ruled during a crucial, turmoil-filled period of The boy king died under mysterious circumstances around age 18 or 19, in the ninth year of his reign (1323 B.C.).
... you are not going to see this death mask of Tut that was show cased in the 70s during the first King Tut Tour. This is the later tour of what would be more truthfully be called the "Golden Age of the Royal Pharaohs" because there is lots of gold but little Tut to this collection of relics.
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