He gave his life for tourism
In honor of yesterday's family visit to the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit at the de Young Museum:
Everyone really enjoyed the exhibition (even Helen found things that held her interest). It clearly helped that we covered Egyptian history last year in the kids' homeschool curriculum. The exhibit has a lot of material covering the transition from polytheism to monotheistic sun-worship under Akhenaten and then back to polytheism under Tutankhamun. I was actually surprised by the number and quality of the Akhenaten artifacts. I thought the ancient Egyptians had done a more thorough job of expunging him from history after his death.
Neither Lisa nor I was able to see the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit 30 years ago, and thus we were pretty excited about yesterday's trip. I was gratified to see the kids seemed to be as well.
Comments
He had a condo made of stona!
Posted by: Betsy | September 7, 2009 6:37 PM
Alex is walking around the house saying "he ate a crocodile" and "don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut."
Makes a father proud...:-)
Posted by: Don Roberts | September 7, 2009 7:09 PM
It may be a classic but I don't recall ever seeing this before. Great!
Posted by: Gloria Nafziger | September 8, 2009 7:26 AM
This performance is from the April 22, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live. There's also a version on YouTube from a September 28, 1979 performance at the Universal Amphitheatre. I remember watching that one.
Posted by: Don Roberts | September 8, 2009 7:47 AM