Egypt
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
Fayetteville Observer (Melissa Clement) I always like to see traveling exhibitions receiving new plaudits. Here's another enthusiastic reaction to Temples and Tombs. The page is taking quite a long time to load, but it gets there in the end. There's...
- Exhibition: Final Farewell - The Culture Of Death
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24358Final Farewell: the Culture of Death and the Afterlife, showing in Missouri, is looking at how different socieities have approached death and the dead: "Six months in the making, the exhibit explores...
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645199913,00.html"No need to jump a jet to London to tour the British Museum's Egyptian art exhibit, which has the largest collection outside of Cairo, Egypt. A large sculpture from Britain's exhibit of ancient...
- Bowers Unwraps A New Mummy Exhibit
http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=4063"Hailing from the deserts of Egypt, across the Atlantic Ocean, and now settled snugly for a limited time in Orange County, comes the Bowers Museum’s Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt … Treasures...
- Mummies From The British Museum Shown In California Exhibition
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050816-034100-6412r"Among the peoples of the ancient world, the Egyptians occupy a unique position with their approach to death and the possibility of resurrection, particularly since so much of the...
Egypt
Ancient and modern attitudes to death
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/opinion/local_story_273195217.html
A 2-page feature comparing the attitudes of the ancient Egyptians and the modern (presumably western) world to death, inspired by the exhibition Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum showing at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art until November 26th 2006:
A 2-page feature comparing the attitudes of the ancient Egyptians and the modern (presumably western) world to death, inspired by the exhibition Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum showing at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art until November 26th 2006:
"The sarcophagus is beautiful – wooden, conformed to a woman’s shapely body, decorated with bright colors depicting a woman’s face and a multitude of small geometric shapes and mysterious symbols.
The sarcophagus is at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, one of the objects in the traveling British Museum exhibit of Egyptian art and funerary objects that will be in the capital until Nov. 26.
You don’t get buried in a casket like that today. You are put into a plain metal box with its adornment limited to the side carrying handles, and down you go.
With caskets like ours, it’s not worth getting excited about dying.
But from the amount of time the Egyptians devoted to death, they considered it a thing of importance.
Death is more of a nuisance to most of us than an adventure, generally because we don’t know where we’re going or don’t think we’re going anywhere.
The noteworthy thing about the Egyptian sarcophagus is that it wasn’t for a king or priest but someone of lesser social standing and according to the exhibit, would have been cranked out with many others – not exactly mass produced, but generically produced."
The sarcophagus is at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, one of the objects in the traveling British Museum exhibit of Egyptian art and funerary objects that will be in the capital until Nov. 26.
You don’t get buried in a casket like that today. You are put into a plain metal box with its adornment limited to the side carrying handles, and down you go.
With caskets like ours, it’s not worth getting excited about dying.
But from the amount of time the Egyptians devoted to death, they considered it a thing of importance.
Death is more of a nuisance to most of us than an adventure, generally because we don’t know where we’re going or don’t think we’re going anywhere.
The noteworthy thing about the Egyptian sarcophagus is that it wasn’t for a king or priest but someone of lesser social standing and according to the exhibit, would have been cranked out with many others – not exactly mass produced, but generically produced."
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
Fayetteville Observer (Melissa Clement) I always like to see traveling exhibitions receiving new plaudits. Here's another enthusiastic reaction to Temples and Tombs. The page is taking quite a long time to load, but it gets there in the end. There's...
- Exhibition: Final Farewell - The Culture Of Death
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24358Final Farewell: the Culture of Death and the Afterlife, showing in Missouri, is looking at how different socieities have approached death and the dead: "Six months in the making, the exhibit explores...
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645199913,00.html"No need to jump a jet to London to tour the British Museum's Egyptian art exhibit, which has the largest collection outside of Cairo, Egypt. A large sculpture from Britain's exhibit of ancient...
- Bowers Unwraps A New Mummy Exhibit
http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=4063"Hailing from the deserts of Egypt, across the Atlantic Ocean, and now settled snugly for a limited time in Orange County, comes the Bowers Museum’s Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt … Treasures...
- Mummies From The British Museum Shown In California Exhibition
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050816-034100-6412r"Among the peoples of the ancient world, the Egyptians occupy a unique position with their approach to death and the possibility of resurrection, particularly since so much of the...