Egypt
Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber
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This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved in order to ensure eternal life. On view are the mummy of the priest Thothirdes; the mummy of Hor, encased in an elaborately painted cartonnage; and a nearly twenty-five-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll.
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Rare Ancient Egyptian "book Of The Dead" To Go On View At Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum Press Release Final Section, Completing Rare Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, To Go on View September 28, 2011 Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of...
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Mummy On Display For First Time Since 1952
New York Times Article Slideshow WHEN it comes to names for Egyptian mummies, there’s no question that Anonymous Man lacks the royal heft of, say, King Tutankhamun. Even the Anonymous Man’s nickname, Melvin, isn’t quite a head turner. Even so, as...
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Brooklyn Museum Mummies Ct Scan Project On Twitter
Brooklyn Museum on Twitter Well, all power to them for embracing the latest fads. Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection will undergo computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long...
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Brooklyn Museum Prepares Mummy
Sincere thanks to Sally Williams, Public Information Officer at the Brooklyn Museum, for letting me know in a comment to a previous post that The Brooklyn Museum is also preparing a mummy to tour in an exhibition To Live Forever, that will...
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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...
Egypt