More than two thousand Egyptophiliacs lined up outside Clowes Memorial Hall for what Director of Operations Karen Steele informed me was a sold-out house.
It would not be too much of an exaggeration to say the event had the feel of a rock concert. We were there to see a star. What secrets would he reveal tonight? What announcements would he make?
Shemsu scoops the news for Heritage Key.
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Tags: Archaeology, Egyptian Tombs, Eighteenth Dynasty, Forensic Mummy Studies, Giza Plateau, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Children's Museum, Khufu's Pyramid, Mummies, Nefertiti, Osiris Shaft, Queen Tiye, Secret Doors, Valley of the Kings, Zahi Hawass
My interview with Zahi Hawass has been posted to Heritage Key!
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Tags: Archaeology, Cairo Museum, Egyptian Tombs, Egyptian Tourism, Forensic Mummy Studies, Giza Plateau, Giza Pyramids, Grand Egyptian Museum, Horemheb, Indianapolis, Islamic Egypt, Ka-Nefer-Nefer, Khufu's Pyramid, Memphis Necropolis, Mummies, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Nefertiti, Osiris Shaft, Seti I, Suzanne Mubarak Children's Museum, Valley of the Kings, Zahi Hawass
Zahi Hawass will be speaking at the Clowes Memorial Auditorium in Indianapolis tonight, and guess who has some one-on-one time with him afterwards, thanks to a special assignment for Heritage Key?
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Tags: Heritage Key, Indianapolis, Zahi Hawass
Last week I mentioned the Tutankhamen exhibition going on at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, a mere two-hour drive from Louisville.
Well, add to that a visit from Dr. Zahi Hawass..
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Tags: Butler University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Children's Museum, Louisville, Zahi Hawass
This is a collection of several Egypt-related stories that appeared this week on some of the blogs I follow. Find out about a couple of pretty cool discoveries. See what Zahi Hawass is up to down in Thebes.
And for my fellow Louisvillians: Heads up! There is a wicked King Tut exhibition just two hours away!
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Tags: Ancient Egypt, Giza Plateau, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Children's Museum, Late Kingdom Period, Louisville, Neolithic Period, Predynastic Period, Valley of the Kings, Zahi Hawass
