The extensive collection of more
than 130 treasures from the tomb
of Tutankhamun, other Valley of the Kings tombs and additional ancient
Egyptian sites will draw visitors back in time with inventive design
to explore and experience
the world and times of King Tut and his
contemporaries. The
boy king died under mysterious circumstances
in 1323 B.C.
The exhibition also will include more than 70 objects from tombs
of other 18th Dynasty
royals as well as several non-royal individuals. Coxe Jr.org for more information.
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Key items include
Tutankhamun's royal diadem -- the gold crown
discovered encircling the head of the king's mummified
body that he
likely wore while living -- and one of the gold and precious stone
inlaid canopic
coffinettes that contained his mummified internal
organs. It is accredited through the American Association
of Museums.-8 p.
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CT Scan Images of King Tut Mummy to Be Featured
in 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' Exhibition
TI's Leading OMAP Processor Technology
Coupled with Imagination's PowerVR(R)
MBX(R) 3D Graphics Accelerator Offers Developers Breakthrough
Performance for
Gaming and Graphics
NEW ORLEANS and DALLAS
, Texas Instruments
Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) and Imagination Technologies (Imagination)
(LSE: IMG) today announced a collaboration to develop a targeted ecosystem
leveraging the power of
TI's OMAP(TM) 2 platform and Imagination's best-in-
class PowerVR(R) MBX(R) graphics accelerator
. The TI and Imagination collaboration advances mobile
gaming, provides the game developer community
with a vast array of
capabilities and expands the range of possibilities for the entertainment
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The museum draws
hundreds of thousands of visitors annually and has more than 75,000
members
.
5m triangles per second and with advanced features
such as Dot3 bump mapping, PVR-TC
texture compression and full screen anti-
aliasing, a PowerVR MBX-enabled OMAP 2 platform is capable
of a console-
quality experience. TI
offers custom to turn-key solutions, including complete
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LOS ANGELES
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Tickets Available for Purchase in Los Angeles Beginning March 3
Groundbreaking CT
scans of the celebrated pharaoh King Tut will be
displayed in the National Geographic exhibition
"Tutankhamun and the
Golden Age of the Pharaohs," scheduled to begin a four-city, 27-month
tour
of the United States on June 16, 2005, at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art (LACMA).
The layout
, flow and scholarly conception of the show is being
organized by curator David Silverman, the Eckley
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, in the
ninth year of his reign. They also are
working with LACMA's educators to create an
innovative children's
activity center ("The Pharaoh's World") to accompany the exhibition., and tickets
are for a
designated hour.KingTut.
Through its far-reaching collections and extensive public programming
,
the museum is both a resource to and a reflection of Southern
California's many cultural communities
and heritages.; Saturday and Sunday 11 a. TI and Imagination will be demonstrating PowerVR
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on a TI OMAP2420 development platform at CTIA Wireless in New Orleans,
March 14 - 16. All other
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15, 2005. Some Egyptologists believe he was
murdered by his successor, Ay. to 1305 B.
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and all day on the second Tuesday of each month. With a graphics
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These never-before-seen
images will be on display in the final room of the exhibit, along
with
other dramatic images and video footage. professor
of Egyptology and curator-in-charge, Egyptian
Section, University of
Pennsylvania Museum, who also helped curate the 1970s tour.; closed Wednesday
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The
museum offers free admission after 5 p.
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The scans of Tutankhamun that will be featured in the exhibition
were captured through the use of a portable CT scanner, donated by
Siemens Medical Solutions,
which allowed researchers to see through
the mummy's wrappings and for the first time, to compile
a
three-dimensional picture of Tutankhamun.
Established in 1965 as an independent institution
, the museum has
assembled a collection of approximately 100,000 works from around the
world spanning
the history of art from ancient times to the present.
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ABOUT LACMA
The Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, LACMA, is the premier
encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United
States. TI
provides a breadth of silicon and software and 15 years of wireless systems
expertise
that spans handsets and base stations for all communications
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Tickets for the exhibition will be on sale to the public March
3
through the end of the exhibit's stay in Los Angeles on Nov.C.
The exhibition will place fifty
of Tutankhamun's burial objects
found when Howard Carter discovered the tomb in 1922 in their
historical
, religious and sociopolitical context to show the changes
occurring in Egypt in the late 18th Dynasty
(1555 B.).m.Texas Instruments and Imagination Technologies Create Gaming and Graphics Ecosystem Leveraging
TI's OMAP(TM) 2 'All in One Mobile Entertainment' Platform
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Previously, the quality of mobile
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Says David McBrien, VP business development
, Imagination Technologies:
"This collaboration enables stakeholders in the 3D graphics value chain
to
access the state of the art graphics capabilities of PowerVR MBX and the OMAP
2 architecture
and leverage experience from leaders across the mobile gaming
ecosystem.pvrdev.
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time
multi-threaded DSP/RISC processors, controllers, and communication and
broadcast technologies for
the mobile, consumer, automotive and PC markets.
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new levels of performance and game-play experience for 3D games and
graphics by leveraging the combination
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are addressing this
limitation by combining the horsepower of Imagination's leading embedded
PowerVR
MBX 3D engine, which includes the fully programmable VGP vertex
processor, with TI's OMAP 2 platform
, which includes an ARM1136 with a
dedicated vector floating point unit, a C55x(TM) Digital Signal
Processor for
audio and speech, and a full imaging and video processor.
Companies such
as Fathammer, HI Corporation, Hybrid Graphics, Ideaworks3D
and Superscape are already working with
TI and Imagination on middleware,
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The tour is organized by National Geographic, AEG Exhibitions and Arts
and Exhibitions International
, with cooperation from the Egyptian
Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Treasures from Tutankhamun
's tomb were last displayed in the
United States during a seven-city tour from 1976 to 1979, which
included LACMA and set traveling exhibition attendance records with
some eight million visitors
.m. For information on LACMA tickets, please call
1-877-TUT-TKTS or visit www.
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to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements.normark smileys
This Imagination and TI collaboration
enhances the mobile entertainment
wireless ecosystem by providing the following advantages:
* For game developers, a range of premier tools and middleware partners
that allow game
developers to extract maximum performance and
features.
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KingTut.lacma. LACMA's "Free after
Five" program is sponsored by Target.
Availability
Applications developers can
begin working on the PowerVR MBX-enabled OMAP
2 platform by going to the Imagination website at
http:
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Tutankhamun was one of the last kings of Egypt's 18th Dynasty and
ruled during a crucial
, turmoil-filled period of Egyptian history.
These stone, faience and wooden pieces from burials before
Tut's reign
will give visitors a sense of what the lost burials of other royalty
and commoners
may have been like. Exhibition hours
will be seven days a week, 10 a.m.imgtec.smileys jacci
; Friday
noon-9
p.m.lacma. The collaboration is enabling a
matrix of games and graphics developers, tools and mobile
content providers
and systems integrators to offer an extensive portfolio of optimized content,
tools
and middleware to address the growing 3D graphics hardware accelerated
mobile phone marketplace.
It supplies licensable IP (Intellectual Property) supported by advanced
development tools to leading
semiconductor and consumer electronics companies
worldwide.clip thumbnails
Tickets for the three other tour cities
, Museum of Art, Fort
Lauderdale (opens December 2005); The Field Museum, Chicago (opens May
2006
) and The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (opens February 2007)
go on sale in the coming months.
The scanning of Tut's mummy
is part of a landmark, five-year Egyptian research and conservation
project
, partially funded by National Geographic, that will CT-scan
the ancient mummies of Egypt. All of
the treasures in the exhibit
are between 3,300 and 3,500 years old.
LACMA co-curators Nancy Thomas
and Kathlyn Cooney, both trained
Egyptologists and art historians, are working as part of the
curatorial
team to develop the installation and review, edit and
manage the material according to LACMA standards
.
Museum Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday noon-8 p.
Location: LACMA is located at 5905
Wilshire Boulevard, Los
Angeles, CA 90036. Pay parking is available in the lots at Wilshire
Boulevard
and Spaulding Avenue, and on Ogden Drive.com .tatoos birdseed
"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" group
rates start
at $6, and individual tickets range from $15 to $30. For more information on the exhibition
, please visit
www.
In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors +
Controls
, and Educational + Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing
, design or sales operations in more than
25 countries. PowerVR(R) and MBX(R)
are registered trademarks
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* For mobile content owners, access to a platform on which users
can
have the kind of game experience to which they have become accustomed
on gaming
consoles, without compromising the mobile content owners'
brand quality. Imagination Technologies
Group plc has its corporate headquarters
in the United Kingdom and is publicly traded on the London
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Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of
Antiquities
and director of the Giza and Saqqara Pyramids, is writing
the exhibition companion book, "Tutankhamun
and the Golden Age of the
Pharaohs," and a children's book, "Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy
King," both to be published by National Geographic in June 2005.m."
Says Paul Werp, worldwide
director of marketing for TI's OMAP Platform:
"TI is already working together with Imagination to
enable a range of world
class middleware and tools companies to deliver the best 3D gaming and
graphics
content available in a timely manner in formats that OEMs and
operators will find compelling.jacci plotters
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