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Wonders of Tut reign in Chicago

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 21 May 2006
Chicago Field Museum 1400 S. Lakeshore Drive (866) 343-5303 "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opens Friday. The exhibit, scheduled to run through Jan. 1, will display 130 artifacts from the tombs of King Tut and his contemporaries. These include CT scans of the pharaoh, which were obtained as part of a five-year Egyptian research and conservation project partially funded by National Geographic. Among the notable pieces from the royal tomb are the golden diadem that circled Tutankhamun's head in life and death; a miniature coffin that held his mummified liver; his child-size chair and footrest; statues in gilded wood depicting the boy king as ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt; and model boats meant to ferry the king in the afterlife. The Field Museum has already sold approximately 150,000 tickets with reservations from 32 U.S. states, a ticket presale record for the museum. If you want to add your name to the record list, tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and students and $16 for children 4 to 11. To purchase tickets, call (866) 343-5303 or visit www.fieldmuseum.org/tut or www.kingtut.org. http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/FEATURES05/605210334/1010/FEATURES

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

According to USA Today, Americans are increasingly considering home funerals as a cheaper and more relaxed alternative to commercial mortuary services. Traditional U.S. funerals average $5,000 to $6,000, per the Funeral Consumers Alliance.

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?

	earthen burial
	entombment
	cremation
	donation to science
	cyrogenically frozen
	you mean I'm still alive?

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“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Grave Epigrams

Accused of witchcraft, She declared "I am innocent and God will
Clear my innocency." Once acquitted yet falsely condemned, she suffered
Death July 19, 1692, her Christian character even then fully attested by forty of her neighbors.

Rebecca Nurse

Salem, Massachussets 1692