Head of a Ptolemaic king (background) as a pharaoh, Egypt, Ptolemaic period, late 2nd or early 1st century B.C., IU Art Museum. Statuette of Harpocrates (foreground) Egypt, Early Roman period, 1st century A.D., IU Art Museum.

IU Home Pages take you today to a National Geographic Web site that recounts the opening of King Tut's tomb in 1923. Writer and photographer Maynard Owen Williams was on assignment in Egypt for the magazine. Navigate through the site to tour the tomb and read excerpts from Williams' correspondence home.

More than 3,000 visitors were on hand at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the opening June 16 of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which runs through November and is the first exhibition on U.S. soil of Tut artifacts since 1978.

For those not in the L.A. region in the foreseeable future, we recommend an armchair visit to the IU Art Museum in Bloomington. Go to the Web site below, click on "The Collections" and then "Online Collections." Among the exhibitions to view is Egypt After Alexander, relics from the "heirs of the pharaohs." We also love the Top 125 Masterpieces of the IU Art Museum and don't miss From Desert Sands, a tour of a Coptic textile gallery from ancient Egypt.

http://www.indiana.edu/~iuam/iuam_home.php