Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs

The deYoung Museum in San Francisco presents a glorious exhibition of over 130 outstanding works from the tomb of Tutankhamun “King Tut” as well as those of his royal predecessors, his family and court officials on view thru March 2010.

The exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs, comes more than 3,000 years after ancient Egypt’s celebrated “boy king’s” reign and 30 years after the original exhibit opened in San Francisco. The exhibit provides insight into the life of Tutankhamun and other royals of the 18th Dynasty (1555-1305 BC). All of the treasures in the exhibition are more than 3000 years old.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs offers glimpses of that critical period in Egyptian history. On display will be 50 of Tutankhamun’s burial objects, including one of the gold and precious stone inlaid canopic coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs. Also included are many of the day-to-day objects enjoyed by the young king including a finely crafted child’s chair and an inlaid game board, one of four in the tomb, clearly representing an activity enjoyed by the king.

New to the encore tour of the exhibition are two nested coffinettes that contained the remains of two fetuses that are now undergoing DNA testing to reveal their relationship to King Tut. Also new to the exhibition from Tutankhamun’s tomb is a beautiful scarab bracelet featuring a central image of a beetle representing the sun god. An elaborate pectoral, a masterpiece of jewelry making, contains a rare, yellow-green glass stone carved in the shape of a scarab beetle that some scientists believe to be a fragment of an ancient meteorite.

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