Egypt
ANSAmed (Claudia Tomatis)
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies, Edinburgh
The Press and Journal For centuries, people have been fascinated by the complex rituals which surrounded death and the afterlife in ancient Egypt, especially mummification and burial. The National Museum of Scotland, having undergone a huge multimillion-pound...
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies, Edinburgh Uk
STV (Catie Guitart) The Fascinating Mummies exhibition runs from February 11 to May 27 at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. There's a nice slideshow of the exhibition aswell. An exhibition guiding visitors through the complex rituals...
- Exhibition: Hearst Museum Offers Media Preview
UC Berkeley News A media preview of “The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, April 29, at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibit features...
- L'egitto Mai Visto
Trentino Corriere Thanks again to Pierfranco Dotti for the above link. Vien da pensare, seguendo la straordinaria mostra al castello del Buonconsiglio di Trento «Egitto mai visto», che il passaggio nell'aldilà all'epoca, a differenza di oggi,...
- Exhibition: Egitto, Tesori Sommersi
Corriere Della Sera Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for this link, which has eight lovely photographs from the Egypt's Sunken Treasures exhibition. The exhibition is running from 7 February through 31 May 2009 at the Venaria Reale, a former Savoy residence...
Egypt
Exhibition: Egitto mai visto
ANSAmed (Claudia Tomatis)
A world preview of two collections that have never been seen before is being inaugurated in Trento. The exhibition entitled 'Egitto mai visto' (Unseen Egypt) will be open to the public from saturday May 30 until November 8 at the Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento.
The collections include mummies of a man, a woman, a gat, two fish and a small crocodile. The bulk of the collection comes from items kept in storage at the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the most important such museum outside Cairo. The two human mummies from the First Intermediate Period (2100-1900 BC) in fact come from Turin. They were discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century during excavations by the archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in Assiut and Gebelein. Both mummies are in a good condition and underwent analyses and cleaning for the exhibition.
The male mummy is enclosed in a tree trunk with a staff, a symbol of prestige, in the sarcophagus. The female mummy is that of Neb-em-Khis, the wife of one of the heads of the province. The latter were important military figures when central Pharaonic power was struck by crisis.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies, Edinburgh
The Press and Journal For centuries, people have been fascinated by the complex rituals which surrounded death and the afterlife in ancient Egypt, especially mummification and burial. The National Museum of Scotland, having undergone a huge multimillion-pound...
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies, Edinburgh Uk
STV (Catie Guitart) The Fascinating Mummies exhibition runs from February 11 to May 27 at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. There's a nice slideshow of the exhibition aswell. An exhibition guiding visitors through the complex rituals...
- Exhibition: Hearst Museum Offers Media Preview
UC Berkeley News A media preview of “The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, April 29, at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibit features...
- L'egitto Mai Visto
Trentino Corriere Thanks again to Pierfranco Dotti for the above link. Vien da pensare, seguendo la straordinaria mostra al castello del Buonconsiglio di Trento «Egitto mai visto», che il passaggio nell'aldilà all'epoca, a differenza di oggi,...
- Exhibition: Egitto, Tesori Sommersi
Corriere Della Sera Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for this link, which has eight lovely photographs from the Egypt's Sunken Treasures exhibition. The exhibition is running from 7 February through 31 May 2009 at the Venaria Reale, a former Savoy residence...