Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian)
- Missing Fragments Of Papyrus Found In Australia
ABC News With Video Missing fragments from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been uncovered deep in the stores of the Queensland Museum. The manuscript belonged to a high-ranking Egyptian official who lived in 1420 BC. It was believed...
- British Museum's Book Of The Dead Exhibtion Preview
Heritage Key (Prad Patel) With video. The British Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" is set to open on 4th November 2010 and a video posted on the British Museum's Youtube channel gives a teaser to one of the artefacts...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife (british Museum)
Reuters Africa Papyri from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, a series of spells designed to help guide the dead through the afterlife, will be at the centre of a new show at the British Museum this November. The star item is likely to be the Greenfield...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Never before the Book of the Dead has been the focus of such a major exhibition as the one upcoming at the British Museum in November this year. Rumours of the exhibition started to surface (or at least, reach my ears) ever since...
- 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...
Egypt
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, discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte's invading forces in Egypt in 1799 and subsequently used to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
However, not all the museum's ancient Egyptian collection is equally robust, and much of it, especially pieces made of wood, textile, or papyrus, is usually kept under wraps. Visitors to the museum this winter therefore have the otherwise rare opportunity to see some of this fragile material taken out of storage and put on show in the museum's current major exhibition, Journey through the Afterlife, the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which explores ancient Egyptian attitudes to death and the afterlife.
The exhibition includes hundreds of fragments of papyrus, grave goods, sarcophagi and other items, most of them drawn from the British Museum's collections, and focuses on the instructions left in ancient Egyptian tombs to help the dead navigate through the afterlife, the so-called Book of the Dead.
- Missing Fragments Of Papyrus Found In Australia
ABC News With Video Missing fragments from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been uncovered deep in the stores of the Queensland Museum. The manuscript belonged to a high-ranking Egyptian official who lived in 1420 BC. It was believed...
- British Museum's Book Of The Dead Exhibtion Preview
Heritage Key (Prad Patel) With video. The British Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" is set to open on 4th November 2010 and a video posted on the British Museum's Youtube channel gives a teaser to one of the artefacts...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife (british Museum)
Reuters Africa Papyri from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, a series of spells designed to help guide the dead through the afterlife, will be at the centre of a new show at the British Museum this November. The star item is likely to be the Greenfield...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Never before the Book of the Dead has been the focus of such a major exhibition as the one upcoming at the British Museum in November this year. Rumours of the exhibition started to surface (or at least, reach my ears) ever since...
- 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...