Sun shines brightly on MFA's ambitious 'Pharaoh' exhibit. From: The Boston Herald | Date: November 12, 1999| Author: Palumbo, Mary Jo | COPYRIGHT 1999 Boston Herald. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To Rita Freed, the fractured statues lay in the dim basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo like massive jigsaw puzzles begging to be reassembled.

The Egyptian art curator for the Museum of Fine Arts was on one of several trips to Cairo to prepare for the "Pharoahs of the Sun" exhibit, when she saw the broken statues of the revolutionary pharoah Akhenaten stacked on shelves in a narrow corridor.

Before you could say Holy Father of Tut, Freed struck a deal. Th...

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