Posts Tagged ‘chalcedony’

See King Tut Show at the de Young Museum on Columbus Day 2009 – a Two for One Sale!

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

What are you doing this Monday, October 12th, 2009? You’re not going to work on Columbus Day are you? Gaia forfend!

Well, if you have the time, grab your partner and doh si doh on over to Golden Gate Park ’s de Young Museum, where tickets to see the Boy King in San Francisco are half-off, one day only:

It’s Tut, baby.

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I’ll be at work, but otherwise, I’d…

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Tut at the de Young – Know Your Boy King: #1, Diadem with Vulture and Cobra

Friday, June 26th, 2009

It’s Tut! It’s dazzling! As you know by now, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is opening tomorrow at the de Young Museum.

This is King Tut’s royal headband. His mummified head wore it for over 3000 years, but now it’s available for you to view in Golden Gate Park.

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Inlaid Diadem with Vulture and Cobra. Gold, glass, obsidian, carnelian, malachite, chalcedony, lapis lazuli. Dynasty 18, reign of Tutankhamun (1332–1323 B.C.). Thebes, Valley of the Kings, tomb of Tutankhamun