Currently at the Dallas Museum of Art, King Tutankhamun is on display! This exhibition has caught the eye of over 5 million vistors worldwide. This tour is returning to the United States and Dallas is the first stop of the tour. I read about this in our school newspaper and was fully intrigued so I proceeded to find the website to get more information. The exhibition explores the “figures who guided ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago,” and focuses on the era when Tutankhamun was in power of the lands. The museum has “more than 130 artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhuman and other ancient Egyptian sites.”
I was blown away that this opportunity was in our city. King Tut became pharaoh when he was only nine years old and he reigned for ten years, I do not know how a nine year old could rule a city-state but it worked. King Tut is so famous now because when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon founded his tomb, in 1922, it was in almost perfect condition. Now 86 years later people all around the world are still visiting the tomb.
It is such a privilege to visit these artifacts and I can’t wait to go and physically see things that have been around for hundreds of years. Will people be as impressed with the artifacts they obtain from our generation? What would they put on display? Have you ever thought that one day our lives in which we think are such a small part of the world could be studied and dissected. Someone could be so fascinated by the way in which we lived that our lives could potentially become apart of an exhibit. If this happened, what would they have learned from you?
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