Dig Those Descriptions:

Creating Descriptive tags to Accompany an Ancient Egypt Museum Exhibit

The actual museum exhibit “Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs” is at: http://www.kingtut.org/gallery2.htm

This is where you will find the photos of the artifacts for the descriptions that you will be writing.

The official web site for the exhibit “Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of

the Pharoahs” is at: http://kingtut.org/exhibition.htm

Here you will find a timeline of ancient Egypt, as well as resources about ancient Egypt’s religion and the Curse of the Pharoahs.

The National Geographic Magazine offers links and resources based on the

excavation of King Tut’s tomb at http://nationalgeographic.com/magazine/0506

And at:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/tut/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com

NOVA: the inside story of pyramids is found at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

A page with some artifacts and descriptions is found at: http://www.beloit.edu/~arthist/historyofart/egyptian/artifacts.htm

The Michael C. Carlos Museum web page has pictures that you can click on to

get a larger view with accompanying description: http://carlos.emory.edu/COLLECTION/EGYPT/

Egypt - Art/Galleries/Exhibits -Virtual and real museums and collections of

Egyptian art and artifacts. Quite a few helpful websites on this page:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/egyptart/

Cleopatra: a Multimedia Guide has images to click on with descriptions: http://www.artic.edu/cleo/index.html