Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs makes its Colorado debut at the Denver Art Museum, after a successful tour which combines over 50 treasures from the tomb of the boy-king with another 70 artefacts spanning two millennia of the great civilization.
For those with more than a passing interest in the historical knowledge of Egypt's most famous ruler, the show also features landmark scientific research on King Tut, culminating in the first 3D CT-scan of the pharaoh's mummy.
Safari operators in Africa realised several years ago that there were people who wanted to see the wildlife, but not shake dirt out of a sleeping bag and take a shovel to dig a loo at the end of the day. Now London-based Ancient World Tours, who specialise in ancient sites, is amongst a growing number of companies capitalising on this growing market, and offering camping holidays with a twist of glamour: glamping. I spoke to Managing Director Peter Allingham about the changing face of cultural tourism.
Although the name sounds like something a dodgy pop star would do, ‘glamping’ (glamour camping) is giving some tour operators the edge in a competitive market. Having gained popularity in parts of Europe, America and Australia, glamping is rapidly becoming a part of a tour’s itinerary in countries such as Egypt and Jordan.
Submitted by Jon Himoff on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 22:23
Zahi Hawass tells BusinessWeek that the touring exhibits including the King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs exhibition have netted Egypt $100 million USD since 2005. Considering that none of the major coffins or the ultimate, iconic piece the Death Mask are included in these shows (click here to see where they're hiding) it is quite an impressive yield for brand Tut and Egypt Inc. (King Tut's contracts are worth about as much as the world's most highly paid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo).
Heritage Key has learned that the Terracotta Warriors exhibition, which is coming to Toronto in June, will be the largest one ever seen in Canada or the United States.
Right now the warriors are at the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC. That show, containing more than 100 objects (including 15 terracotta figures), is billed on its website as being the “largest display of terracotta figures and tomb artifacts ever to travel to the US.”
Dr. Dan Rahimi, of the Royal Ontario Museum, dropped Heritage Key a tantalizing nugget of information today in an interview. In response to a question he said that the Toronto show would be “bigger than Washington.” He’s the Vice-President of Gallery Development for the museum so he’s definitely in the know.
The medieval Lewis Chessmen were hand carved by Norse master craftsmen in Trondheim, then for some reason abandoned in a sand dune on a Scottish island, before being discovered in 1831 and split up and sold to two different museums, in Edinburgh and London. For the first time in over 150 years, pieces from both collections – 30 of them in total – will be reunited in Scotland, in a hotly-anticipated touring exhibition that begins in Edinburgh before visiting Aberdeen Art Gallery (October 7, 2010 – 8 January 2011), Shetland Museum & Archives (January 29, 2011 – March 27, 2011) then finally Museum nan Eilean on the chessmen’s spiritual home of Lewis (April 2011, 15 – September, 12 2011).
The medieval Lewis Chessmen were hand carved by Norse master craftsmen in Trondheim, then for some reason abandoned in a sand dune on a Scottish island, before being discovered in 1831 and split up and sold to two different museums, in Edinburgh and London. For the first time in over 150 years, pieces from both collections – 30 of them in total – will be reunited in Scotland, in a hotly-anticipated touring exhibition that begins in Edinburgh before visiting Aberdeen Art Gallery (October 7, 2010 – 8 January 2011), Shetland Museum & Archives (January 29, 2011 – March 27, 2011) then finally Museum nan Eilean on the chessmen’s spiritual home of Lewis (April 2011, 15 – September, 12 2011).
The medieval Lewis Chessmen were hand carved by Norse master craftsmen in Trondheim, then for some reason abandoned in a sand dune on a Scottish island, before being discovered in 1831 and split up and sold to two different museums, in Edinburgh and London. For the first time in over 150 years, pieces from both collections – 30 of them in total – will be reunited in Scotland, in a hotly-anticipated touring exhibition that begins in Edinburgh before visiting Aberdeen Art Gallery (October 7, 2010 – 8 January 2011), Shetland Museum & Archives (January 29, 2011 – March 27, 2011) then finally Museum nan Eilean on the chessmen’s spiritual home of Lewis (April 2011, 15 – September, 12 2011).
Submitted by Jon Himoff on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 18:15
The Neues Museum re-establishes itself as one of the premier ancient world destination in Europe--and the world really-- after being closed since 1939. The collection combined with the restored/re-imagined building delivers an experience that every real ancient world explorer needs to embrace.
You need to get straight to the Main Stairs to start your exploration of the Neues. Feel the vibrations of history from the not so old Soviet bullet holes that still pepper the structural walls nearest the windows to the romanesque columns and classical castings from the Parthenon. Use the modern stairs to transport yourself across time and history at the Neues.
The 12th century Lewis Chessmen are one of Britain’s finest and most valuable heritage treasures. They represent the largest single surviving collection of objects made purely for the purposes of recreation in the medieval period, at a time when chess was becoming hugely popular among the aristocracy. They may also be some of the only medieval chess sets still in existence today.
Scottish Minister for Culture Mike Russell is expected to announce today that the Lewis Chessmen – a collection of 93 individually hand-carved walrus-ivory chess pieces dating from the 12th century, found on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 – are to be reunited again. A proportion of the 82-piece set belonging to the British Museum in London will arrive home on loan, to join up with the 11 other artefacts currently held by the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. They’ll go on tour around the country in coming months, taking in destinations including Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs makes its Colorado debut at the Denver Art Museum, after a successful tour which combines over 50 treasures from the 
Safari operators in Africa realised several years ago that there were people who wanted to see the wildlife, but not shake dirt out of a sleeping bag and take a shovel to dig a loo at the end of the day. Now London-based 
Heritage Key has learned that the 
