Tutankhamun Exhibition Greenwich London
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On 18th August 12 of visited the Millenium Dome to see the King Tut exhibition.

We arrived around noon and found a Thai Restaurant. The food was truly delicious, we all tried different menus and enjoyed a glass of wine. Hilary had her friend Avis visiting her from Zimbabwe and it was great to meet her.

The structure of the Dome is the largest of its type in the world. Externally it appears as a large white marquee with twelve 100 m-high yellow support towers, one for each month of the year, or each hour of the clock face, representing the role played by Greenwich Mean Time  In plain view, it is circular, 365 m in diameter — one metre for each day of the year — with scalloped edges. It has become one of the United Kingdom's most recognisable landmarks. It can easily be seen on aerial photographs of London. Its exterior is reminiscent of the Dome of Discovery built for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

Tutankhamun was only eight or nine years old when he became pharaoh, and reigned for approximately ten years. In historical terms, Tutankhamun's significance stems from his rejection of the radical religious innovations introduced by his predecessor Akenhaten and that his tomb, uniquely, in the Valley of the Kings was discovered almost completely intact -- the most complete ancient Egyptian tomb ever found. As Tutankhamun began his reign at such an early age, his vizier and eventual successor Ay was probably making the most of the important political decisions during Tutankhamun's reign.