So who is going to see King Tut?

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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:50 pm

For the first time since I was Knee High to a grasshopper, King Tut's burial artifacts is visiting Britain. So, who's going to visit the Millenium Dome to see him?

http://www.theo2.co.uk/web/guest/whatson/exhibitions

His Official site - http://www.visitlondon.com/tutankhamun/

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:55 pm

I for one will not be there, also have just last month visited Eygpt and seen his other treasures in Cairo museum.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:47 am

I saw the exhibit in M�nich back in, errr, 1982(?).

Absolutely mind-boggling.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:37 am

I well remember the exhibition in San Francisco in the late 70s. Fantastic. I'd love to see it in Cairo but I'm not so sure I want to vacation in Egypt.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:35 am

I saw him in Egypt in 1987.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:35 am

The tickets are a bit steep, �20.00 weekend or �15.00 during the week. But I'll no doubt go over the Christmas holiday. Saw them the first time at the British Museum, when I was twelve.

I wanted to see the Terracotta army at the British Museum but it's all booked. I've been past a few times and the queue is enormous. Shocked

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:11 am

The Tut display is very good, only thanks to the high quality artifacts. The exhibit is incredibly tacky and often rammed with schoolchildren (seems like more than usual). Lots of people were angry that the gold burial mask wasn't on display (a photo of a gold mask is used for the advertising, but this is actually of a very small coffin made for internal organs. Very cool but tiny).

Terracotta army exhibition is definitely worth seeing, I've been twice so far (although the display is nothing like the images of the massed figures on site). Best to book in advance (although completely sold out through December), though it's not so bad to queue up in the morning for the day's extra allocation of tickets (they go on sale at 9.15 but it's worth getting there some time in advance). Don't even bother on weekends, though.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:42 pm

windypops wrote:

The tickets are a bit steep ...

It's worth it.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:53 pm

I'll also probably go and see Tut, too good to miss really. I saw the terracotta warriors a few years back in China, pretty impressive.

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:56 pm

I lived in Egypt for over 2 years, so I've seen a LOT of Tut's stuff in the past. Mind you, if I happened to be in London, I'd definitely go. And I'm really sad I missed the Terracotta Warriors when I was in China. I love stuff like that...

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:12 pm

It looks like it will be there when I am there, so I will make it a point to go by and check out. After not going to see Nirvana play one time, I have learned to take the opportunity to see something when you can.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:28 pm

I want to see the teracotta dudes and the King Tut show, i'd like to go to Cairo and China, but who knows, i may never get the chance.

While I'm at it I want to see the new St Pancras station. Anyone know if you can get in the old train shed with only a platform ticket? Last time I went to waterloo it was like an airport, no way onto the platform without a ticket & passport. The new security bollox won't help either.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:49 pm

^ I went to see the inside of St Pancras about three-four years ago before the main work started when they included it in Open House day.

They are going to restore it, and put it back into some kind of use. A lot of the original wallpaper and paintings were still there. Queued for hours to get in, but well worth it.
The Grand Stairs had two cast iron columns running up the middle that fed town gas to the whole building, long since removed for safety reasons.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:01 pm

You can see a lot of St Pancras without even having a ticket (and it's really amazing) as the ticketed departure zone is behind a big glass screen.
I'm sure you won't be able to get past the screen without a ticket for travel (maybe you could buy a return St Pancras International <-> Stratford International?)

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:13 am

I'll make the trip down in the new year. Of course, having been to Cairo several times, I have seen the treasures, but it'll be nice to see them again...
(Yes, that should have been read in my best 'aren't you soooooooo impressed' bitch voice! Wink

) In reality, I am ecstatic at the chance to see them again!

I was once lucky enough to go to the Cairo museum so early in the morning that I had the Tutankhamun (I hate when it's shortened to 'Tut', it's so disrespectful) treasures all to myself for a whole hour. My fingerprints are probably still on the glass of the case where the funerary mask usually lives! One of the guards offered to open the case for me, in exchange for some baksheesh. I summoned up some moral resolve and said no. Frankly, if I'd got my hands on that mask, it was going in my shoulder bag and back to London with me, guards or no guards! Laughing

I see some people saying they wouldn't want to holiday in Egypt - I haven't been for several years, but the majority of Egyptians are lovely, friendly people, and I never felt uneasy or at risk there.

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