No man it's cool, I love the Aten, don't hurt me.

[pauraque_bk]

For like two minutes the LJ headers were showing the Halloween "undead journal" art. That... was perplexing.

Um, anyway, I forget whatever I was going to post about now. This is going to be frickin awesome and _hannelore is going to come see it with me before I/we leave. The 18th dynasty is leet in so many ways. I love the naysayers who are always like "meh Tut was a minor king!". Minor, right, the politics surrounding his ascension, reign, and death were totally MINOR.

I have a cold again.

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[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Wow, they had the King Tut exhibit at the De Young when I was in... I can't remember for sure; I think it was in junior high. Anyway, back in the Dark Ages as far as you're concerned. But my dad took me because I'd been a total archaeology junkie back in fifth and sixth grades, devouring every book in the Burlingame public library on the subject. (Yes, I was geeky like that.) At any rate, have a great time at the exhibit!

[pauraque]

Last time I missed it because I was negative three years old. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Our partner hotels offer a variety of exciting King Tut room packages some of which include VIP tickets and other special amenities.

Murder in your sleep, optional!

[aunty_marion]

I saw that (or a very similar exhibition) at the O2 (the Millennium Dome) in Greenwich last year. It was excellent!

Mind you, I also saw the one they brought to the British Museum in 1973 or 74 (?), when I was a student - Mum and Dad and my younger sister came down and we left Dad watching cricket in the hotel (!) and queued for over an hour to get in; but that one had the real headpiece from the coffin, where this one's just got the 'coffinette'.

[pauraque]

I expect it's going to be packed, I'm going to buy tickets as soon as they're available.

A few years back there was an exhibit of Mayan artifacts at the Legion of Honor Museum, which I went to with very_improbable. It was a long wait to get in, which surprised us at first because it wasn't even a "big name" exhibit. Then we realized how many of the people were Latino, and were coming to see their own history featured. I thought that was pretty awesome and didn't mind waiting at all. :)

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I saw the earlier exhibition in San Francisco, the crowning jewel in what was an AWESOME year of museum exhibitions. It was very crowded. But well worth it.

Give my respects to Lady Sekhmet for me, please. Thank you.

[pauraque]

*...glances at kitty*

Oh, you mean the *other* feline force of destruction.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* And can you believe I referenced the wrong goddess? I was thinking of the beautiful Selket image in the exhibition (if it's there again).

[pauraque]

Oh really, and that late? I thought she was mostly merged into Isis by then.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. There are four canopic goddess statuettes. Isis and Selket are two of them (I forget the other two).