CHICAGO -- Officials at Chicago's Field Museum say they've already sold 170,000 advance tickets to the exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs." Contest: Win A Trip To Egypt! It opens May 26 and runs through January 1.
Workers put the first artifact into place Tuesday. The nearly life-sized, painted wooden model of Tutankhamun was discovered in Egypt in the tomb of the boy king in the 1920s."There are CAT scans, reproductions of what his skull probably looked like, and then you get to see the real individual," said David Silverman, curator of Egyptology of the University of Pennsylvania. "Buck-toothed, also with a recessed chin, enormous eyes. So perhaps the eyes are still there in the artistic representations, but some of the others that they weren't so happy about, perhaps they just changed." Scholars believe the object either served some kind of function in religious rituals or was used as a mannequin to hold the king's robes and jewelry. The exhibit features 130 treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other members of the royal family. It drew more than 900,000 visitors during its stop last year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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