Big statue arrives in Seattle ahead of ‘King Tut’
May 15, 2012, 1:46 PM | Updated: May 16, 2012, 7:12 am
Seattle Department of Transportation spotted the Anubis being moved into its new home at the King Street Station. (Seattle Department of Transportation)
 Seattle Department of Transportation spotted the Anubis being moved into its new home at the King Street Station. (Seattle Department of Transportation) |
There’s a new addition of the ancient sort to Seattle’s
downtown to mark the arrival of the King Tut exhibit.
“We have placed a 28 foot tall statue outside King Street
Station of an Anubis, a jackal headed God of the
afterlife.
He sort of serves as an ambassador as the exhibition is
here
in Seattle,” said Crystal Clarity with the Pacific Science
Center.
The King Tut exhibit is set to arrive next Thursday, May
24.
More than a hundred artifacts from King Tut’s tomb and
other ancient Egyptian site will be on display at the
museum through Jan. 6, but you’ll want to plan ahead
if you’d like to see them. They’ve already sold more than
82,000 tickets.
The Pacific Science Center says many of the artifacts have
never toured the U.S. before this exhibit.
Highlights include a 10-foot statue of King Tut unearthed
at the funerary temple of two of his high officials. In
1922, British explorer Howard Carter discovered a boy’s
golden sandals designed specifically for the afterlife.
