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,...
- 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: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead in Japan
The Japan Times Online (C.B. Liddell)
All exhibitions focusing on ancient Egypt (3100-332 B.C.) smell of the tomb to some degree, simply because the best artifacts have been recovered from the graves — this is true of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," an exhibition currently being held at the Osaka Tempozan Exhibition Gallery and which comes to the Ueno Royal Museum on Aug. 4. According to professor Jiro Kondo, a director of the Institute of Egyptology at Waseda University and the curator for the "Book of the Dead" exhibition here, such shows usually follow a set pattern.
"Every two or three years in Japan we have some sort of ancient Egyptian exhibition," Kondo says. "The focus is on golden objects and jewelry rather than a theme, leading Japanese people to think ancient Egyptian civilization is gold, mummies and jewelry. But this time, we are following the British Museum exhibition and taking a deeper look at the beliefs related to the afterlife."
The exhibition features around 80 objects sourced from a show held in autumn 2010 at the British Museum, with the centerpiece being the Greenfield Papyrus. This remarkable scroll, made for a high-ranking priestess named Nestanebtasheru in 930 B.C., contains a richly illustrated version of the Book of the Dead, an ancient Egyptian funerary text that is a rich source of information about the civilization.
- 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,...
- 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...