CARLOS CONVERSATIONS
Voted “Best of Atlanta” in the December issue of Atlanta Magazine, the Carlos Museum podcasts have captured the attention of the arts and culture community. Innovative and highly accessible, Carlos Conversations, are vigorous interviews discussing dynamic and intriguing stories behind ancient objects in the Carlos Museum. The Education department announces two new podcasts, both focusing on the complex religious imagination of the ancient Egyptians. In one of the podcasts, our host Sandy Goldberg of Antenna Audio holds an intimate conversation with Dr. Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory, in which they explore the imagery on the Museum's Coffin of Tahat scene by scene. As they hear Dr. Robins and view the detailed images on their iPod or computer, listeners will understand the ancient Egyptian conception of the coffin as a microcosm of the universe, with the deceased at the center.

In the second of the two new podcasts, curator Dr. Peter Lacovara, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Shalom Goldman, and Gay Robins, explore the radical changes to Egyptian religion and art brought about by the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten, the restoration of the traditional religion during the reign of his son, Tutankhamun, and the place that both these kings, despite their rather short reigns, hold in the popular imagination. The new podcasts can be accessed through the Carlos Museum's website or through the Emory section of iTunesU on iTunes.

TUTorials

Spearheading educational events and cultural initiatives putting the Tutankhamun exhibition into context, the Carlos Museum has been applauded by the City of Atlanta and exhibition organizers for its dedication to scholarship and community involvement in improving access to the exhibition. The Museum has used both event programming and online methods to bring “Egypt to Atlanta.” Online classroom TUTorials, developed in conjunction with the exhibition, are for elementary, middle, and high school audiences. These classroom TUTorials are downloadable for free across the country and address topics such as childhood in ancient Egypt, kingship, and the journey to the afterlife. Andrew W. Mellon intern at the Carlos Museum, Flora Anthony, a graduate student in Emory’s Art History department, worked with Emory Egyptologists Dr. Gay Robins and Dr. Peter Lacovara, and Education Director, Elizabeth Hornor, to develop 18 TUTorials. Classroom TUTorials can be downloaded from the Carlos Museum website