The Return of the King
Thirty years after Tutmania, Egypt’s boy wonder is back
A king with a thing for bling, Tutankhamen was dead before his 20th birthday, mummified, buried and forgotten. But the precocious pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th dynasty was destined for a celebrity afterlife of bigger-than-Elvis proportions. When the AGO mounted its last Tut show, in 1979, some 750,000 people shuffled past the boy’s toys. This time around—for the sole Canadian stop on an international tour organized in part by the National Geographic Society—Tut is sharing the spotlight. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs features even more stuff from more royals over more millennia: 100-plus pieces, among them a 10-foot statue of Tut, the coffinette that held his stomach, the sandals chosen for his trek to the hereafter and a child’s game called senet. All this, plus an audio tour voiced by Harrison Ford. The AGO is time-ticketing the exhibit, but the real curse of the mummy’s tomb has always been the lineups—prepare for throngs. Nov. 24 to April 18, 2010.
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