Egypt
British Museum (John Taylor)
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The British Museum's curator Dr John Taylor has located pieces of a New Kingdom book of the dead that once belonged to a high priest of Amun in around 1420 bc. The fragments are kept in the Queensland Museum but there are other pieces in various...
Egypt
More inside views on the Book of the Dead exhibition
British Museum (John Taylor)
It’s now just over one month since the Book of the Dead exhibition opened to the public – the culmination of a number of years work. So it’s greatly satisfying to see it full of people at last.
We’ve always been aware that here at the British Museum we have one of the best collections of books of the dead in the world, but usually we can only display a small proportion of them. So we’ve always wanted to find an opportunity to display a larger selection of them and also explain what they are. If you look at the Egyptian galleries here you will see references to Books of the Dead, you’ll see parts of them, but we have never been able to focus so closely on them and really explain how they work.
Seeing the objects in place is really exciting. You think you can get a sense of what it will look like but when you see the installation in the space for the first time it can be a real revelation, especially as plans change so much over the course of the development.
One of the problems we faced was that there are so many stories you can tell about the books of the dead, but you can’t explain them all.
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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...
- Feature: Truth On Display
Tim Reid's Egyptians blog Continuing his theme on Egyptian artefacts currently held by collections outside Egypt Tim has provided a roundup of some of the more contraversial items that are to be found in European museums. See Tim's post, above,...
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