Ever since I saw it advertised on the side of a cross-town bus, I wanted to see the King Tutankhamen exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. It may sound silly, but I didn’t know the exhibit was in town until then. Now that Ame has some time off, it was a great opportunity to go downtown and see things.

I remember seeing Ramses (II maybe, I can’t recall) quite some time ago as a kid and it was pretty cool. I even remember the mummified remains on display behind the velvet rope and inside the case. It was truly a sight to remember.

Today was cool too, and I’m glad I went. All the items on display were real works of craftsmanship and I was amazed at how well the pieces were preserved. They were definitely old, to be sure, but they certainly didn’t look thousands of years old – merely hundreds. Some of the polished stone artifacts were still shiny after all this time. The gold inlays and etchings were of such fine detail, it would have required a master craftsman’s full attention.

To reiterate, it was amazing to see, but King Tut and his famous mask were not present. The exhibit should have been billed as “(some of) King Tut’s Stuff, and a lot of other things that his aunt and grandmother owned (…maybe).”