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We went to see Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the MN Science Museum over the weekend. What a great exhibit.
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King Tut and Arabic Groove
We went to see Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the MN Science Museum over
the weekend. What a great exhibit. We learned about the pharaohs of ancient Egypt and saw more than
100 artifacts from 3,000 years ago. The mind boggles. It was fascinating to hear the story of Howard
Carter, who unearthed King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. His is a story of how “way leads
on to way”—he started as a young artist hired to assist with recording an excavation and ended up heading
the team that made one of the greatest discoveries of all time.
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My favorite artifact was this shabti. We read about shabti in Rick Riordan’s book, The Red Pyramid, so it
was cool to see one in real life. A shabti is a small human figurine that represents a person who would
perform a given task for the deceased in the afterlife. In other words, the pharaohs and other rich folks
had a bunch of these little clay figures buried with them so they wouldn’t have to do any work in the
afterlife. Needless to say, I’ll be making some out of play dough to tuck in with me so someone else can
wash the dishes and do laundry in Heaven.
The museum’s sound system had Putumayo’s Arabic Groove playing in the background. We first heard the
CD a few years ago during a visit to the Children’s Museum. It’s the sort of music you can’t help dancing
to, so I bought a CD. I hadn’t listened to it for a while, but I’ve dusted it off. The music gets me moving
since I don’t have any shabti to do all my work. Yet. If you like to read about adventurers with a mission
to make the world a better place, check out this interview with Putumayo’s founder Dan Storper here.
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