Tuesday, April 7, 2009
King Tut
Recently we took our ACCEL students to the King Tut exhibit in Dallas at the DMA. I had heard from a few people beforehand that it was rather disappointing, but I tried to keep an open mind about it. The main complaint that I had heard was that Tut's golden sarcophagus wasn't there. I saw the Queen Hatshepsut exhibit a few years ago at the Kimbell and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I had something to compare this exhibit with. I wasn't disappointed. Sure, it would have been nice to see the big golden mask, but there were many other items of interest. A couple of things that just blew my mind were the glass headrest and the children's chairs. Evidently, the ancient Egyptians used cloth-wrapped pedestals to rest their heads on instead of pillows. Not particularly comfortable in my opinion, but the workmanship was like something done with modern machinery. Incredible. The chairs were also in amazing condition, considering they were about 3,300 years old. The 3-D introductory movie was also informative and entertaining. 3-D technology sure has come a long way since the days of hokey red and blue glasses.
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I went on the King Tut field trip and it was great. We saw a 3-D movie. The 3-D glasses they gave us looked diffiren than other glasses they had green, yellow and sort of purple. there was a scary part where there was an alligator That came roaring right at us and I bet you could here the roar from outside the small room. After we finished seeing the movie we went to a small room were we saw a 90 second video and went into the exibet. almost everything wea made out of gold! At the last room we saw life size of how big his tomb was. It measured 12x9 feet! When we got out we went into a gift shop. I bouth a small notepad and some poker cards the field trip was fun. I hope me and my familly can go thegether someday.
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