Egypt
Suite101 (Stan Parchin)
See the above page for the full story, with photographs.
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) As anyone who has visited its ancient Egyptian galleries will know, London's British Museum has one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the famous Rosetta Stone,...
- Exhibition: Out Of The Vaults
Huliq.com Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto runs an exhibition named 'Out of the Vaults: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead' until October 18, 2009. Journey to the afterlife through the mystical Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat. Books of the Dead are...
- More Re Scroll Of Amenemhat At Rom
The Torontoist With photograph. The ROM is kicking off Egypt Month on Saturday, February 28 with a new attraction: the Book of the Dead (and no, it’s not the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead series—that demonic text was Sumerian). The seven metre–long...
- Exhibition: More Re Unearthing The Truth - Egypt’s Pagan And Coptic Sculpture
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The exhibition, on view from February 13 to May 19, 2009, presents 30 Late Antique works (395-642 A.D.), many genuine, alongside reworked or repainted objects and a number of modern forgeries in an ambitious attempt to explain...
- Mummy To Be Rescanned
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) Specialists will perform a CT-scan on a five-foot-tall adult Egyptian mummy (Dynasty XXI, ca. 1000 B.C.) from the Royal Ontario Museum on October 29, 2007. This non-invasive procedure is now performed with some regularity by institutions...
Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead Exhibit at Royal Ontario Museum
Suite101 (Stan Parchin)
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" at the Royal Ontario Museum displays its recently conserved religious scroll and some 130 related artifacts usually in storage.
This third installment of the ROM's Out of the Vaults series, which highlights rarely seen objects from its collections for a limited period of time, is part of the museum's Egypt Month festivities and on view in the third-floor Centre Block from February 28 to May 10, 2009. The exhibition includes funerary masks and portraits, protective amulets, a stone coffin lid's head, a complete sarcophagus, a Roman Period child's mummy and shawabtis or carved statuettes assigned to perform the daily work of the deceased in the afterlife.
See the above page for the full story, with photographs.
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) As anyone who has visited its ancient Egyptian galleries will know, London's British Museum has one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the famous Rosetta Stone,...
- Exhibition: Out Of The Vaults
Huliq.com Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto runs an exhibition named 'Out of the Vaults: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead' until October 18, 2009. Journey to the afterlife through the mystical Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat. Books of the Dead are...
- More Re Scroll Of Amenemhat At Rom
The Torontoist With photograph. The ROM is kicking off Egypt Month on Saturday, February 28 with a new attraction: the Book of the Dead (and no, it’s not the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead series—that demonic text was Sumerian). The seven metre–long...
- Exhibition: More Re Unearthing The Truth - Egypt’s Pagan And Coptic Sculpture
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The exhibition, on view from February 13 to May 19, 2009, presents 30 Late Antique works (395-642 A.D.), many genuine, alongside reworked or repainted objects and a number of modern forgeries in an ambitious attempt to explain...
- Mummy To Be Rescanned
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) Specialists will perform a CT-scan on a five-foot-tall adult Egyptian mummy (Dynasty XXI, ca. 1000 B.C.) from the Royal Ontario Museum on October 29, 2007. This non-invasive procedure is now performed with some regularity by institutions...