From The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564409.html
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"The five-city "Temples and Tombs" tour, which features 85 objects covering 3,000 years, overlaps with a new King Tut exhibit now in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, "The Past Is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum" is a yearlong display of ancient objects from the Mediterranean that were given to the museum last year. And "Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum" drew from the UNC-Chapel Hill museum's collection...."
IN RALEIGH "Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art," today-July 8, N.C. Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Road. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (until 9 p.m. Friday); 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $8-$10; free for members and children younger than 6. 839-6262, 715-5923, http://www.ncartmuseum.org/
(There is a photo at the site of their Museum Park...that has THREE HUGE circular rings placed in a row in a field...sort of like Stargates.)
LECTURE "An Egyptologist Meets Hollywood," with Stuart Tyson Smith, professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and consultant on "The Mummy" and "Stargate," 2 p.m. May 20, museum auditorium.
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/564409.html
(Please follow the link to read the complete two page article.)
"The five-city "Temples and Tombs" tour, which features 85 objects covering 3,000 years, overlaps with a new King Tut exhibit now in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, "The Past Is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum" is a yearlong display of ancient objects from the Mediterranean that were given to the museum last year. And "Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at the Ackland Art Museum" drew from the UNC-Chapel Hill museum's collection...."
IN RALEIGH "Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art," today-July 8, N.C. Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Road. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (until 9 p.m. Friday); 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $8-$10; free for members and children younger than 6. 839-6262, 715-5923, http://www.ncartmuseum.org/
(There is a photo at the site of their Museum Park...that has THREE HUGE circular rings placed in a row in a field...sort of like Stargates.)
LECTURE "An Egyptologist Meets Hollywood," with Stuart Tyson Smith, professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and consultant on "The Mummy" and "Stargate," 2 p.m. May 20, museum auditorium.