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LL Moonmanhead · Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Location: yo momma

of all time??

Was in Cairo in July. I stared at that thing for a good 30 minutes. The craftsmanship---AND IT'S THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD !!! MENTAL!!!

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Yeah, I was also mesmerized when I saw it up close. Pictures just don't do it justice. It was a very spiritual experience for me.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

yeah, i was in the museum the last half-hour or so before closing, so i was the only person in the room. it was fantastic.

peppermint · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

Of course it's stunning, but I'm going to lay my money on the Terra cotta army in China

Notice the soldier infront of the one with the yellow collar is asleep

then you look and realize they're ALL that distinctive

Boodleheimer · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject:

nope, seen 'em. tut's better

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Seen the Terra Cotta Warriors, haven't seen the mask first hand. Still, I like the mask more. Could be just because it's more shiny though Wink

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

canuckistan

The Hierophant · Joined: 13 Sep 2005

Tut's mask is certainly exquisite. But I can never look at it without wondering just how outraged he would be at lowborn peasants like us ogling at his sacred treasure.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

It's just bling

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

It's marvelous (as is the sculpture of Nefertiti) but I'm partial to the Book of Kells and maybe even more to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2939362.stm

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Delirium's Brother · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:33 am Post subject:

As a work of art it definitely ranks up there. As a symbol of tyranny and exploitation, well. I guess I can't say enough against it.

Everytime I look at a skillful work of human craft and imagination from the ancient world, like Tut's mask, I'm amazed by the transcendence of human creativity. But since I'm not interested in fetishizing material culture, I don't have any counter-examples of other works to present as better.

Tut's mask is cool.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I'm not denigrating Tut or Nefertiti, but walking into a room with a classical Greek statue is even more breath-taking to me. Hermes at Olympia, Zeus (or Poseidon--no one seems to know which one it is) in Athens...those things are awesome.

My very favorite one is a fragment of a head that sits on the wall in the National Museum in Athens. No idea who is it. Just a head. I swear I saw it breathing.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Tut's mask is magnificent and incredibly old. It would get my vote too.

But, The Book of Kells, from AD 800, has to be up there as one of the most amazing preserved manuscripts of all time (but I'm Irish so I'm biased!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells