One of the highlights of my tenure as a TV person was the chance to visit Egypt in advance of the Ramses exhibit visiting nearby Memphis. It was an abolutely fascinating trip and included a visit to King Tut’s tomb. I am in awe of the pyramids and the technology needed to built them, too. I was fascinated this morning to wake up to the TV reports that the mummy of King Tut was being displayed to the public, beginning today.
Face of King Tut unshrouded to public
King Tut’s buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public – more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in linen and buried in his golden underground tomb. Archeologists [...]
UPDATE: Interesting behind-the-scenes piece from NBC News:
An irreverent and entirely inappropriate thought kept imposing itself as I waited to report live on MSNBC about the first-ever public viewing of the face of King Tutankhamen from his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. There he lay in front of me, his blackened face and empty eye sockets staring upwards, with taut cheeks stretched over small bones, lips pulled back in a sneer and deep wrinkles forming jagged scars in his face. And all I kept thinking as I waited for the anchor to ask her first question: Do not kiss the Sleeping Beauty who died more than 3,000 years ago. I imagined that if I did, maybe he would come back to life. And if he did, what would [...]
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