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Article: Tut strikes twice for Pennsylvania curator.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- February 1, 2007
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Byline: Stephan Salisbury
Feb. 1--David P. Silverman was a young Egyptologist laboring at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute when he was approached one day in 1976 by the director, Gustavus F. Swift 3d.
"He said, 'You know, we're thinking about joining with the Field Museum and doing the Tut exhibit'" then being organized under the auspices of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Silverman recalled the other day. " 'Do you want to do it?'
"I said: 'What do you mean, do it? Never mind! Yes!'
"And that's basically how it happened."
From such matter-of-fact beginnings sprang his association with the legendary Tut ...