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...
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Egyptian Mummies On Show In Korea
Korea Herald In a rare exhibition of Egyptian relics here, the National Museum of Korea in Ichon-dong is showing over 200 ancient artifacts in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Austria. "We have organized this exhibition so that Koreans...
- Three Photos Of The Newsly Discovered Faiyum Mummies
Kataweb Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for the above link. There are three photographs on the above page of the newly discovered mummies in the Faiyum. The photos have been shown in various online articles but it is nice to see all three in the same place....
- Pharaonic Funfair At Seoul
http://tinyurl.com/kfnd9 (Egypt State Information Service) "For the first time ever and at a cost of $50 million, a Korean citizen, who possesses Egyptian monuments, held a permanent exhibition for Ancient Egypt as well as a Pharaonic funfair at Seoul,...
Egypt
Exhibition of Egyptian replicas in Seoul
http://tinyurl.com/nsnew (Korea Times)
"A crowded Seoul theme park is not usually a place for getting in touch with ancient Egyptian culture, but Lotte World in southern Seoul is making an exception. Visitors look at replicas of artifacts from ancient civilization in Egypt in the exhibition hall at Lotte World in southern Seoul. /Korea Times Since late February, the Adventure section of the spacious theme park in Chamsil has been holding an exhibition featuring some 100 replicas of artifacts from ancient civilization in Egypt in the third floor of Rainbow Plaza. . . . The exhibition is aimed at providing viewers with a chance to get to know the history of the ancient civilization and perhaps to understand its link to modern Egypt."
"A crowded Seoul theme park is not usually a place for getting in touch with ancient Egyptian culture, but Lotte World in southern Seoul is making an exception. Visitors look at replicas of artifacts from ancient civilization in Egypt in the exhibition hall at Lotte World in southern Seoul. /Korea Times Since late February, the Adventure section of the spacious theme park in Chamsil has been holding an exhibition featuring some 100 replicas of artifacts from ancient civilization in Egypt in the third floor of Rainbow Plaza. . . . The exhibition is aimed at providing viewers with a chance to get to know the history of the ancient civilization and perhaps to understand its link to modern Egypt."
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- 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...
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Egyptian Mummies On Show In Korea
Korea Herald In a rare exhibition of Egyptian relics here, the National Museum of Korea in Ichon-dong is showing over 200 ancient artifacts in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Austria. "We have organized this exhibition so that Koreans...
- Three Photos Of The Newsly Discovered Faiyum Mummies
Kataweb Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for the above link. There are three photographs on the above page of the newly discovered mummies in the Faiyum. The photos have been shown in various online articles but it is nice to see all three in the same place....
- Pharaonic Funfair At Seoul
http://tinyurl.com/kfnd9 (Egypt State Information Service) "For the first time ever and at a cost of $50 million, a Korean citizen, who possesses Egyptian monuments, held a permanent exhibition for Ancient Egypt as well as a Pharaonic funfair at Seoul,...