Archaeology Exhibition at Coffs Harbour

[JohnF]

Tuesday night, or Wednesday morning I an headed down to Coffs Harbour as a volunteer guide for an Archaeology Exhibition [it is starting on the 17th but I am helping set up.]

It will have things like life size reproduction of Pharaoh Tutankhamen's death mask & other objects from his tomb. bricks from Ancient Babylon with Nebuchadnezzar's name on them, plus lots of other stuff including Dead Sea Scrolls, etc. It is worth while and I did one last year as a volunteer guide, and have been told this one is better with more artifacts.

Cost to get in for an adult is two dollars. It is at the Coffs show ground and will be well advertised in the area.

So if any AULRO members are coming, do ask for John -- and I can not save you two dollars admission so do not ask.

It is a great exhibition--based on what we had last year.

[JohnF]

I had not seen the death mask when it visited Melbourne. To see the Museum quality full-size accurate reproduction that is in the exhibition was a real thrill for me.

The Melbourne Exhibition cost 95 dollars and had armed Guards watching your every move. Our Exhibition has no Armed Guards and only costs $2--.

[JohnF]

This archaeology exhibition is from the largest private collection of artifacts in Australia. 300 items are on exhibit including many items from Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb [all those are museum quality replicas], etc. One third of the exhibition are originals, while the rest, 2/3rds are museum quality certified replicas.

You can also see things like the Sennacherib prism, Cyrus Cylinder, Nabodinus' Hymn to the Babylonian God Marduk, plus his Chronicle, bricks from Ancient Babylon. Proof that Pi from the Pythagoras Theorem was known to Ancient Sumerians 1000 years before Pythagoras, the Gilgamesh Epic, & see the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.

It is open 10.00 -6.00 on weekends and open 12.00 -6.00 on weekdays till the 31st of this month [earlier on weekdays is for booked groups-- schools and respite care, etc.] Ask for John [Me] as I am one of the guides, but today is my day off.

[Discofever]

Sounds interesting John unfortunately I'm a Mexican and am unlikely to shell out $95 to see it in Melbourne (especially after going through the British Museum half a dozen times a few years back).

[bob10]

This archaeology exhibition is from the largest private collection of artifacts in Australia. 300 items are on exhibit including many items from Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb [all those are museum quality replicas], etc. One third of the exhibition are originals, while the rest, 2/3rds are museum quality certified replicas.

You can also see things like the Sennacherib prism, Cyrus Cylinder, Nabodinus' Hymn to the Babylonian God Marduk, plus his Chronicle, bricks from Ancient Babylon. Proof that Pi from the Pythagoras Theorem was known to Ancient Sumerians 1000 years before Pythagoras, the Gilgamesh Epic, & see the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.

It is open 10.00 -6.00 on weekends and open 12.00 -6.00 on weekdays till the 31st of this month [earlier on weekdays is for booked groups-- schools and respite care, etc.] Ask for John [Me] as I am one of the guides, but today is my day off.


Can you touch any of them? Bob

[JohnF]

Bob, as 1/3 of the exhibition is originals and 2/3rds are replicas we do let people touch some of the exhibits-- including some replica peaces. However this coming Weekend is the last weekend, and last weekend we were run of our feet, and expect to be very busy this Weekend. So any one who wanted to toch something would have to get here today or tomorrow.

We hand some bits to people to touch. A group of Disabled people plus there carer came through yesterday and one was blind. I handed some peaces, about a dozen to the blind man to feel.

[JohnF]

Sounds interesting John unfortunately I'm a Mexican and am unlikely to shell out $95 to see it in Melbourne (especially after going through the British Museum half a dozen times a few years back).

Sadly I have never seen the British Museum display like you were privalidged to do. But we also have Museum quality replicas from the Leiden Museum [Ipuwer Papyrus], Cairo Museum [Tutankhamen, etc], from the Istanbul Museum [Treaty of Kadesh], and from the Berlin Museum [Bust of Nefertiti], items from Herods Temple -- destroyed 70AD, the Dead Sea Scrolls from Israel's Museums, etc.

I do not know which museum other bits come from. So we have items which possibly are not in the British Museum. But we finish 6:00 Sunday.

Someone is hoping to raise the finance to have this display in a town on the NNSW Northern Tablelands.

[JohnF]

Dorrigo Now

This same Archaeology Exhibition is to be run at Dorrigo from the Sunday the 28th of September till 14th October. I will be down there as a volunteer guide, and will not be on the internet much after now.

For Railway Buffs, At Dorrigo it is right next to at least 12 old Steam locomotives, at the Seventh-day Adventist Church hall.

If any come do introduce yourself to me.

[JohnF]

Dorrigo Now

This same Archaeology Exhibition is to be run at Dorrigo from the Sunday the 28th of September till 14th October. I will be down there as a volunteer guide, and will not be on the internet much after now.

For Railway Buffs, At Dorrigo it is right next to at least 12 old Steam locomotives, at the Seventh-day Adventist Church hall.

If any come do introduce yourself to me.

Sorry guys, it now finishes on Friday the tenth of October instead of the 14th.

[JohnF]

Should also have said that the Exhibition will be closed on Saturday.