By adamg on Tue., 1/14/2020 - 3:10 pm
Seems we're getting one of those traveling displays of stuff from King Tut's tomb, Boston Magazine explains.
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Ah, I thought we were
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 3:23pm
Ah, I thought we were renaming City Hall Plaza to Egyptian Square, since we're renaming places after ancient foreign kingdoms now.
like New England?
By Michael
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 4:15pm
..
England, Britain, the UK
By anon
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 12:51am
Is a lot less ancient and far more revelant in these parts than Egypt.
Ah yes
By fungwah
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 4:43pm
As opposed to those old classic Native American places like "Boston", "Cambridge", or "Worcester", which have probably been called that forever and certainly weren't named after anything foreign.
Except for the former Gay
By anon
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 1:54am
Except for the former Gay Head, I haven't heard of anyone proposing we rename places back to their indigenous names.
Are you?
I just thought
By ScottB
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 5:06pm
Mahty had declared himself Pharaoh of Boston.
born in arizona
By bostnkid
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 3:41pm
i think he had a condo
Born in Arizona
By Section 77
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 5:16pm
Had a condo made a stone-ah.
At no time
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 3:57pm
At no time was that Steve Martin "King Tut" routine ever funny.
True, but only because ...
By adamg
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 5:54pm
It was at all times hilarious.
My favorite childhood song!!
By MassMikMouse
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 9:11pm
Got it going through my head right now. His banjo/bluegrass version is also fabulous!
When I heard the announcement
By roadman
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 4:50pm
about the Tut Exhibit, my first thought was "Better make sure Batman's in town." My second thought was of Steve Martin's King Tut.
It had Blue Lue Marini popping out of a sarcophagus to play
By section77
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 9:18pm
hot sax. You hush your mouth.
Funny as hell
By merlinmurph
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 7:49am
I still remember being over a neighbor's house and watching SNL that night. Beer-coming-out-of-the-nose funny.
The song hit #17 on American Top 40
By Friartuck
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 9:02am
So a few people enjoyed it. He was definitely more entertaining than say Rodney Dangerfield.....
I see wonderful things!
By WyzAzz
Tue, 01/14/2020 - 7:38pm
I see wonderful things!
What comes around...
By oddjob60
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 9:57am
The Steve Martin routine was playing off that time's own King Tut hype, fueled by a massive traveling exhibition, "Treasures of Tutankhamen," one of the first blockbuster touring exhibitions, which visited seven US museums from 1976-79.
I could have sworn that exhibition came to the MFA. I even remember going to it as a kid. But I can find no evidence it came any closer than New York.
I saw the Tut exhibit at the
By Patriciax
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 10:02am
I saw the Tut exhibit at the MFA (?) and it had to be in the eighties. First thing I thought of when I saw this on the news this morning.
I think you're correct in thinking you saw it here.
Me too
By frobot
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 10:09am
Sometime, probably in the mid to late 90s, my mom brought me to a traveling Egyptian exhibit at the MFA. I too could have sworn it was Tutankhamen.
Me too too
By capecoddah
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 10:49am
I remember the huge banners out front and possibly some other larger than life decor when I was remodeling the YMCA cafe in the late 90s..... and circling for a parking spot constantly.
I can't help but think it was a female Egyptian and that was the focus.
Ramses
By anon
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 10:13am
You may be thinking of the Ramses exhibit that came to the Museum of Science in the 80s. It also had a massive statue of Ramses in front of the museum.
Yes, I was definitely
By mcm
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 11:03am
Yes, I was definitely thinking of the Ramses Exhibit in 1988.
Yes Ramses --- No Tut since 1963
By Nowy Liberté
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 12:11pm
1988 the Museum of Science had Ramses II --- complete with mammoth Ramses II Sculpture [May 7, 1988 through August 30, 1988] -- and in 2012 the MOS hosted "Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science [May 27 – September 3 2012].
The MFA has had several major Egyptian Exhibitions including one "The Secrets of Tomb 10A Egypt 2000 BC" [October 18, 2009–June 27, 2010] -- based on the tomb of the Governor Djehutynakht --- and most of which can be seen on display permanently in a gallery devoted to it.
BUT Boston has not had a major Egyptian Exhibition devoted to King Tut
In 1963 a relatively small exhibition of 34 artifacts called Tutankhamun Treasures was hosted by the MFA for about a month [February 1–28, 1963]
In the 1970's and 80's a lot of TuT stuff -- the blockbuster Treasures of Tutankhamun -- including the world famous gold death mask -- traveled extensively worldwide and to seven sites in the US [77-79] -- but just not here. The closest it got to Boston was at the Metropolitan in NYC [December 15, 1978 – April 15, 1979] . I saw it at the Museum of Art in New Orleans [September 15, 1977 – January 15, 1978].
Now -- this summer we are getting a final chance to see a lot of Tut's Stuff before it disappears into a new permanent display in Cairo.
Ramses-(Almost) too big for Boston
By Irma la Douce
Thu, 01/16/2020 - 4:02am
I can remember taking a few E-line trips to Lechemere and getting impressive views of Ramses in his temple as the trolley passed the MOS. In fact-checking my memories I found this article explaining that the separate temple had to be built because the colossus was too heavy for the landfill that the museum is built on.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.csmonitor.com/lay...
The article details the (at the time) recent restoration of Ramses, which had been found lying in mud in the 1960s.
It was definitely the 80's
By Patriciax
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 12:37pm
It was definitely the 80's for me, so you are correct - it was Ramses
I remember going to a
By mcm
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 11:01am
I remember going to a travelling exhibit in the 70s or early 80s that I could have sworn was King Tut, and at the Boston Museum of Science.
Boston's Egyptian Revival Monuments
By Aline Kaplan
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 12:09pm
The giant Guardian now standing in front of City Hall should be right at home in Boston. We have Egyptian Revival architecture scattered all around the city and Cambridge. One stands right in front of a Freedom Trail landmark. You can find them all on my blog on Egyptian Revival Monuments Part 1 (http://bit.ly/2RI5NOp) and Part 2 (http://bit.ly/2REAI9z)
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