Egypt
The Seoul Times (Karen Kim)
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Egypt
Exhibition: 5,000 Years of Egyptian Legend
The Seoul Times (Karen Kim)
The National Museum of Korea will hold the "5,000 Years of Egyptian Legend" exhibition from April 28 to August 30, 2009 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its opening.
The large-scale Egyptian exhibition will be hosted under the auspices of the Egyptian Embassy in Seoul, the Austrian Embassy in Seoul, and South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
The exhibition will feature a total of 231 top-quality original works carefully chosen from "Egypt-Oriental Collection" from Kunsthistorisches Museum of Austria.
An embassy source said that the exhibition will be bigger, and better, and more extensive than any other Egyptian exhibitions previously held in South Korea.
The source said that the exhibition will be a case in which spectators will see and understand the civilization of mythical ancient Egypt.
The exhibition items include a Pharaoh's stone image, a sedentary statue, a sphinx and worship animal statues, mummies, ceremony of the dead, casks, amulets, incantation, pots, gravestones, tools, letters,a toilet set, and ornaments.
See the above page for the full story.
- Exhibition: Mubarak Sends Greeting Message To Egypt's "sunken Treasures Exhibition" In Japan
Egypt State Information Service President Hosni Mubarak sent a message of greetings to "Egypt's Sunken Treasures Exhibition" to be opened by Egyptian ambassador to Japan Walid Abdel-Naser in Yokohama city. In his message, Mubarak hoped that the exhibition...
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JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Egyptian Mummies On Show In Korea
Korea Herald In a rare exhibition of Egyptian relics here, the National Museum of Korea in Ichon-dong is showing over 200 ancient artifacts in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Austria. "We have organized this exhibition so that Koreans...
- Three Photos Of The Newsly Discovered Faiyum Mummies
Kataweb Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for the above link. There are three photographs on the above page of the newly discovered mummies in the Faiyum. The photos have been shown in various online articles but it is nice to see all three in the same place....
- Pharaonic Funfair At Seoul
http://tinyurl.com/kfnd9 (Egypt State Information Service) "For the first time ever and at a cost of $50 million, a Korean citizen, who possesses Egyptian monuments, held a permanent exhibition for Ancient Egypt as well as a Pharaonic funfair at Seoul,...