Egypt
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
British Museum (John Taylor) What is a Book of the Dead? With video An introduction to The Book of the Dead exhibition. John Taylor, curator of the exhibition Journey Through the Afterlife, talks about the star of the exhibition. I’m the curator of...
- 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: Egypt Endures At ‘tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt’
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett) This exhibition has been quite well covered in the Canadian media, and I've posted about it before, but I've added this link because it has better detail than previous articles and the photographs are very good, including...
- Where Is The Dignity In The Display Of This Corpse?
Independent (Philip Hensher) It is interesting to note that in all the 100s of repetitive articles and posts alerting us to the fact that the body of Tutankhamun went on display this month (revealing his face to onlookers for the first time), so very...
- Australian Exhibition To Host Louvre Artefacts
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,20158430-17102,00.html"The National Gallery of Australia will host an exhibition of Egyptian artefacts from the Louvre in Paris, from November 17. Says the gallery: 'Follow the soul on its journey from earthly...
Egypt
Exhibition: More re Journey To The Afterlife
http://tinyurl.com/2sdypb (theage.com.au)
An article looking at the ancient Eygptian afterlife, in the context of the Journey exhibition currently in Canberra, Australia. The piece looks less at the exhibition than at the information it imparts:
"The embalming and the storing of organs in jars is because the dead person will need them. To get safely through to eternity you need a body, a name, a soul and a life force; the absence of any of these is a disaster. To erase a name and destroy a body is to deny the owner any possibility of life after death. That is the capital punishment of criminals - exterminating body and name, execution in this life and forever after.
The soul takes the shape of a bird, sometimes a plump creature with a human head, sometimes a stylised swoop of wings; you have to guard it closely but it can fly about, always returning to its body. If its body is not available it will try to find another, a living body, and will make it ill. Similarly dangerous is a body whose soul is lost.
Just as the sun rises in the east and sails in a barge across the sky to its setting, so the dead travel to the Beautiful West, and end up in the heaven of the Field of Reeds. If they are good, or lucky. But first they have to journey through the underworld and face its god Osiris."
The soul takes the shape of a bird, sometimes a plump creature with a human head, sometimes a stylised swoop of wings; you have to guard it closely but it can fly about, always returning to its body. If its body is not available it will try to find another, a living body, and will make it ill. Similarly dangerous is a body whose soul is lost.
Just as the sun rises in the east and sails in a barge across the sky to its setting, so the dead travel to the Beautiful West, and end up in the heaven of the Field of Reeds. If they are good, or lucky. But first they have to journey through the underworld and face its god Osiris."
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
British Museum (John Taylor) What is a Book of the Dead? With video An introduction to The Book of the Dead exhibition. John Taylor, curator of the exhibition Journey Through the Afterlife, talks about the star of the exhibition. I’m the curator of...
- 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: Egypt Endures At ‘tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt’
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett) This exhibition has been quite well covered in the Canadian media, and I've posted about it before, but I've added this link because it has better detail than previous articles and the photographs are very good, including...
- Where Is The Dignity In The Display Of This Corpse?
Independent (Philip Hensher) It is interesting to note that in all the 100s of repetitive articles and posts alerting us to the fact that the body of Tutankhamun went on display this month (revealing his face to onlookers for the first time), so very...
- Australian Exhibition To Host Louvre Artefacts
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,20158430-17102,00.html"The National Gallery of Australia will host an exhibition of Egyptian artefacts from the Louvre in Paris, from November 17. Says the gallery: 'Follow the soul on its journey from earthly...