From Tennesse to Egypt, and Back.

 The Tennessee State Museum is a great place to visit when you are down visiting the Capitol grounds.  It offers free admission, lots of displays and, for now, an Egypt exhibit called Relics, Replicas and Revivals: Treasures from Tutankhamun.  Key word?  Replicas.  Yep--when you scroll down and see how CLOSE we got to the exhibits that are NOT behind glass...well, it's because they are only replicas.  But hey, none of us cared, and it was a lot more fun and beautiful than our time at the Field Museum when the real Tut and his real stuff was on exhibit.

Learning about Long Hunters, like Daniel Boone.  We visited Long Hunter State Park a few months ago, not knowing the origin of the term.  Long Hunters (or Longhunters) would go on long expeditions and hunting trips for months at a time.   I think my Dad would have liked this way of life.

A frontier cabin, a 200-year-old dugout canoe, a grist mill, and a Conestoga wagon all give testimony to life on the frontier.

This canoe would have had room for dozens of men.

Such humble beginnings...see the following picture to read the plaque below this scale model of early Nashville.

Grain mill.

Daaavvyyy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier! 

Old printing press.

Ain't misbehavin'!

Guilty as charged.

Dumb camera failure.  Anyway--that's a replica of King Tut. Poor guy has seen better days.

This guy is a modern piece that is described as "Egyptian Revival".  Even though the sign says that there's an "Egyptian revival in Tennessee", well, I'm not buying it.  I'll take that statement back the moment I see something like this standing out in one of my neighbor's front yards.

Wondering how similar this chariot would have been to those that were part of Pharoah's army and overcome in the sea while pursuing the Israelites.

Cartouche Box of the 18th Dynasty.  Replica of what is held at the Cairo Museum.

Yeah, yeah...it's covered in gold.  But personally, I'm thankful for modern-day mattresses.

Interesting...read below:

Egyptian game--read below:

The Grant Clan enjoyed their short visit in Egypt, but honestly...we prefer being out of Egypt.  For all the wealth, nobility and majesty displayed in the relics of the kings of Egypt, we are reminded of the even greater treasures and majesty of the One who chose to send his initial messenger in a humble basket down the Nile.  Decades after being "drawn from the water", he would instruct and guide in the gentle Way of He who would come from similar humble beginnings in a land northeast of Egypt.  May we have ears to hear.