Egypt
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett)
See the above page for the full story.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever
Arts Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Ancient Egyptian funerary practices and religious beliefs about death and the afterlife are vividly described by 107 pieces of jewelry, sarcophagi (coffins), statuary and vessels in To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife...
- Tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt Exhibition At Canadian Museum Of Civilization
Stan ParchinThe Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec presents Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt from December 19, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The exhibition explains the Egyptians' concept of death not as the end of life,...
- 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: 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...
Egypt
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 a wonderful beadnet dress from the Old Kingdom.
Visitors to the exhibit get a rare glimpse of both life and life after death in ancient Egypt. What is so fascinating is that the Egyptians believed in an afterlife and wanted to prepare for it.
“They filled their tombs with images and objects from their everyday lives, which they believed would magically sustain them for eternity,” says Dr. Betts. “[The exhibition] explores ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, namely the Egyptian concept of the afterlife, and what the material culture associated with this belief reveals about their lives.”
Dr. Betts adds that for an ancient Egyptian to read or recite written words was to bring them to life. “Writing a name in stone, so it could be remembered forever was thus a certain way to ensure immortality.”
Scientists are now studying a fairly contemporary mummy—a preserved body mummified in 1994 by doctors who had studied the ancient techniques, using frankincense and myrrh with beeswax and honey. They are hoping to determine what parts of the body to take samples of DNA from so that doctors can discover how malaria and other diseases have evolved.
See the above page for the full story.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever
Arts Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Ancient Egyptian funerary practices and religious beliefs about death and the afterlife are vividly described by 107 pieces of jewelry, sarcophagi (coffins), statuary and vessels in To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife...
- Tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt Exhibition At Canadian Museum Of Civilization
Stan ParchinThe Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec presents Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt from December 19, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The exhibition explains the Egyptians' concept of death not as the end of life,...
- 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: 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...