Egypt
- Ancient Objects Whisper The Desire To Live Forever
Herald Tribune (Kevin Costello) Against vistas of sun-baked dunes and cold, star-filled desert nights, the ancient Egyptians created an art and culture centered on death and the afterlife. "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From The Brooklyn Museum,"...
- Exhibition: Death And The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt
Daily Titan Historians have always been fascinated by the culture of Egyptians and their unique approach to life, death, mummification and the possibility of resurrection. Media has shown, however, that it is not only historians who are intrigued by...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From The Brooklyn Museum
Huliq.com The Brooklyn Museum has organized an exhibition of 107 objects from its world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art that will go on a nationwide tour beginning in the summer of 2008 and conclude in the fall of 2011. The presentation, titled...
- Exhibition: Egypt - Beyond The Tomb Going To Auckland
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0704/S00060.htmA bit ahead of itself, because the exhibition doesn't actually open until 25th May: "This extraordinary exhibition follows Keku, an Egyptian woman who lived 2700 years ago, as she makes the perilous...
- 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...
Egypt
Exhibition: Final Farewell - The culture of Death
http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24358
Final 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 4,000 years of death and burial practices as well as what Kidd called related 'sociological phenomenon.' It’s a visual history of death, encompassing practices associated with funerals, burials, mourning, martyrdom, suicide and even human sacrifice.
As is typical, Kidd drew on what the museum owns in deciding on the theme for this exhibit. An alabaster canopic jar, for example, was used to hold organs such as the lungs and liver taken from the newly deceased in ancient Egypt. Ornaments carved of human bone were taken from youths who underwent “sky burial,” a Buddhist ritual used in Tibet and China in which the deceased’s body is skinned, cut up and mashed into paste for the pleasure of vultures."
The website for the Museum of Art and Archaeology (The University of Missouri-Columbia) is at
As is typical, Kidd drew on what the museum owns in deciding on the theme for this exhibit. An alabaster canopic jar, for example, was used to hold organs such as the lungs and liver taken from the newly deceased in ancient Egypt. Ornaments carved of human bone were taken from youths who underwent “sky burial,” a Buddhist ritual used in Tibet and China in which the deceased’s body is skinned, cut up and mashed into paste for the pleasure of vultures."
The website for the Museum of Art and Archaeology (The University of Missouri-Columbia) is at
http://maa.missouri.edu/default.htm
A dedicated page for the exhibition on the Museum's site is at:
http://maa.missouri.edu/exhibitions.html
"The world’s many cultures have long created myriad traditions from ideas and attitudes about death. Moreover, their funerary rituals, preparations for the body, views toward cause of death, and notions of the afterlife have resulted in the creation of an extensive, artistic legacy. Final Farewell: the Culture of Death and the Afterlife examines these customs and ideas with art and artifacts representing the cultures of ancient Egypt, Greece, Etruria, Palestine, and the Roman empire; various civilizations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas; and the western European traditions of the medieval and later periods. The exhibit highlights cross-cultural similarities and differences that will allow visitors to trace continuing themes and to understand their collective impact on the production of art associated with the universal culture of death."
http://maa.missouri.edu/exhibitions.html
"The world’s many cultures have long created myriad traditions from ideas and attitudes about death. Moreover, their funerary rituals, preparations for the body, views toward cause of death, and notions of the afterlife have resulted in the creation of an extensive, artistic legacy. Final Farewell: the Culture of Death and the Afterlife examines these customs and ideas with art and artifacts representing the cultures of ancient Egypt, Greece, Etruria, Palestine, and the Roman empire; various civilizations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas; and the western European traditions of the medieval and later periods. The exhibit highlights cross-cultural similarities and differences that will allow visitors to trace continuing themes and to understand their collective impact on the production of art associated with the universal culture of death."
- Ancient Objects Whisper The Desire To Live Forever
Herald Tribune (Kevin Costello) Against vistas of sun-baked dunes and cold, star-filled desert nights, the ancient Egyptians created an art and culture centered on death and the afterlife. "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From The Brooklyn Museum,"...
- Exhibition: Death And The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt
Daily Titan Historians have always been fascinated by the culture of Egyptians and their unique approach to life, death, mummification and the possibility of resurrection. Media has shown, however, that it is not only historians who are intrigued by...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From The Brooklyn Museum
Huliq.com The Brooklyn Museum has organized an exhibition of 107 objects from its world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art that will go on a nationwide tour beginning in the summer of 2008 and conclude in the fall of 2011. The presentation, titled...
- Exhibition: Egypt - Beyond The Tomb Going To Auckland
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0704/S00060.htmA bit ahead of itself, because the exhibition doesn't actually open until 25th May: "This extraordinary exhibition follows Keku, an Egyptian woman who lived 2700 years ago, as she makes the perilous...
- 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...