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The de Young’s New Egypt Show Draws From Two of the Past Century’s Biggest Discoveries

"Treasures of the Pharaohs" features fascinating finds from the Golden City, discovered in 2020, and the royal tombs of Tanis, uncovered in 1939.

In September 2020, eminent archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass and his team began their search for a mortuary temple in honor of Pharaoh Tutankhamen on the west bank of the Nile. Research led them to an area near Luxor, between the temples of Ramses III and Amenhotep III. What they found instead was a 3,000-year-old workers’ settlement dubbed the Golden City, the most significant discovery of our era, helping to paint a picture of what life was like for ordinary Egyptians at the time.

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“Its walls are so high and so intact that it really is a miraculous discovery,” ancient art curator Renée Dreyfus of San Francisco’s de Young Museum tells Observer about the site from which 20 items made their North American debut as part of the museum’s “Treasures of the Pharaohs” show through Jan. 31. “We know it’s a huge city because they had these industrial bakeries, a stone mill, funerary monuments. You’re finding things like baby rattles, baby toys and amulets.”

Artifacts date to the Eighteenth Dynasty, which falls in the New Kingdom Period, about 1,000 years after the Great Pyramids and 1,500 years before Cleopatra and the Romans. It’s a likely source for most of King Tut’s treasures, some forged in a jewelry workshop where they found........

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