The royal tombs of the Scythians.
Well, today I had no tour…mid-winter like this it does happen, especially city tours, the full-day trips usually go, it’s just the two hour ones that for some reaon, people don’t turn up for if it’s cold. Then again, my last city tour, on saturday, had a good size group…so go figure.
Anyways, yesterday Petra and I decided to go down to a special exhibit showing the royal tombs of the Scythians…whom we had never really heard of, which is interesting in itself. If you are going to be in Munich in the next week, I HIGHLY recommend going to this exhibit, it was absolutely fascinating and I am very glad I went. Here’s the wiki article on the scythians. Unfortunately they don’t allow cameras in there, so I don’t have any pictures for you. I’d also like to point out they have a full mummy where you can even clearly see the tattoos. Very disturbing and cool at the same time.
J.G. on 16 Jan 2008 at 3:50 am #
The wiki article is quite fascinating. I wonder what will be left of the American civilization in 3000-4000 years. Hopefully such documents as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence will be remembered, even after the originals crumble to dust. I hope that we leave behind more than trinkets. Although, the golden artifacts in that article are quite beautiful. It is too bad that museums do not allow cameras…
NOFXmike on 23 Jan 2008 at 9:48 am #
Yeah…if there’s ever an exhibit like this in the area, I’d definitely check it out. It was similar to most ancient civilizations, though, where most of the “important” graves had been robbed over a hundred years ago.
The Professional Tourist » Dead Air on 26 Sep 2008 at 11:18 am #
[...] Yesterday Petra and I spent a day out at our favorite waterpark for adults only/spa type thingy. It was wonderful as usual. The day before we spent the day spending money, or so it seemed. We went to the Wies’n (Oktoberfest) for lunch, bought Petra an mp3 player, bought myself some pants, and went to an art museum which has an exhibit on how Walt Disney relates to European Art. The exhibit was, like the last exhibit we saw there, quite expensive but very well done. We were happy to see Destino there, which we had never heard of before the exhibit….and overall we happy we saw it. Some of you may recall the last time we visited the hypo-kunsthalle last January. [...]