Egypt
Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson)
With three photos.
- Exhibtion: Egyptian Governor's Life And Death On Exhibit At Museum Of Fine Arts
Concord Monitor (Victoria Shouldis) Thanks to Tony Marson for sending this link. With photo. Like the privileged folk in any society, the noblemen in ancient Egypt expected and had the best of everything: superior housing, superb food and spirits, and...
- Exhibition: More Re "secrets Of Tomb 10a"
NewHamphsire.com A good overview of the exhibition. With some photos. Flashing against a wall are the stark black-and-white images of ancient greed. Inside a 4,000-year-old tomb in which a governor and his wife hoped to make the journey into the afterlife...
- Exhibition: Interview With Barbara Racker On Relations Between Egypt And Nubia
Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson) The Nubians get short shrift when it comes to recognition of significant ancient cultures. A new exhibition at the Clay Center in West Virginia, US, hopes to rectify that. It is cleverly entitled: “Lost Kingdoms of the...
- Ct Scans Of Mummy Djehutynakht
http://www.indianewengland.com/media/paper549/news/2005/08/01/Community/Whos-This.Mummy-966620.shtml An article about the CT scans of the mummy Djehutynakht, a 4,000 year old mummy artifact of an Egyptian governor from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts....
- Tomb Of Djehutynakht
I have long been fascinated by tomb 10a at El Bersha, the tombs occupant a governor named Djehutynakht was buried in what may be the finest surviving coffin of the Middle Kingdom. His wife in the tomb next to him and what might be the largest collection...
Egypt
Exhibition: The Secrets of Tomb 10A
Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson)
With three photos.
People were just as silly 4,000 thousand years ago as they are now, but they manifested it in different ways, of course, which is what makes it interesting. The Ancient Egyptians, for example, had a well-known obsession with how to get ahead in the afterlife, and the wealthier citizens and royalty poured a lot of money, time, and thought into the items that would go in the tomb with them.
Generally, museum exhibitions tend to concentrate on the flashier tomb accessories – golden death masks, jewels, and statues. But a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, goes down a different, somewhat more modest road. The Secrets of Tomb 10a (don’t look for the prequel Tombs 1-10!), which opened Oct. 18, is an unusually comprehensive staging of what was in the tomb of Djehutynakht, a local governor from central Egypt, and his wife, Lady Djehutynakht, who died sometime during the Middle Kingdom (2040 BC – 1640 BC), around 4,000 years ago, and were buried at the necropolis of Deir el-Bersha.
“It’s unlike any Egyptian exhibition I can think of because, for one thing, 90% of the material is from one tomb,” says Denise Doxey, Curator, Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at MFA Boston. “So instead of having isolated bits of nice artwork without a context, this is very much focused on context.”
- Exhibtion: Egyptian Governor's Life And Death On Exhibit At Museum Of Fine Arts
Concord Monitor (Victoria Shouldis) Thanks to Tony Marson for sending this link. With photo. Like the privileged folk in any society, the noblemen in ancient Egypt expected and had the best of everything: superior housing, superb food and spirits, and...
- Exhibition: More Re "secrets Of Tomb 10a"
NewHamphsire.com A good overview of the exhibition. With some photos. Flashing against a wall are the stark black-and-white images of ancient greed. Inside a 4,000-year-old tomb in which a governor and his wife hoped to make the journey into the afterlife...
- Exhibition: Interview With Barbara Racker On Relations Between Egypt And Nubia
Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson) The Nubians get short shrift when it comes to recognition of significant ancient cultures. A new exhibition at the Clay Center in West Virginia, US, hopes to rectify that. It is cleverly entitled: “Lost Kingdoms of the...
- Ct Scans Of Mummy Djehutynakht
http://www.indianewengland.com/media/paper549/news/2005/08/01/Community/Whos-This.Mummy-966620.shtml An article about the CT scans of the mummy Djehutynakht, a 4,000 year old mummy artifact of an Egyptian governor from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts....
- Tomb Of Djehutynakht
I have long been fascinated by tomb 10a at El Bersha, the tombs occupant a governor named Djehutynakht was buried in what may be the finest surviving coffin of the Middle Kingdom. His wife in the tomb next to him and what might be the largest collection...