Egypt
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- Exhibition: Life And Death In The Pyramid Age
Michael C. Carlos Museum Acquired from excavations at the sacred site of Abydos in Middle Egypt by Emory Theology Professor, Rev. William A. Shelton in 1920, this mummy is the oldest Egyptian mummy in the Western Hemisphere and one of no more than half...
- Old Kingdom Mummy To Go On View At Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Howard Pousner) With photo. A rarely displayed Egyptian mummy, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, will be the focus of an exhibit next year at Emory University, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. The mummy, which dates to...
- New Egyptian Art In The Permanent Galleries Of The Carlos Museum
Michael C Carlos ENews, February 2009 In preparation for the new exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs the Carlos Museum’s Egyptian Galleries have seen the redesign of a number of cases and the installation of many new loans...
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things At The Michael C. Carlos Museum
Artdaily.org The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun” at the Michael...
- Ramesses I Mummy
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/149295A very short piece from the Question and Answer section on the Arizona Daily Times web page, about the value of DNA testing mummies:"Question: The Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta had possession of a number...
Egypt
The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy' at Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Catherine Fox)
The mud-brown figure wrapped in yards of linen lies curled on his side, skull cradled by a headrest. He might be mistaken for a George Segal sculpture or a victim at Pompeii frozen in the ash. This man, however, lived thousands of years before Mount Vesuvius erupted. His remains are among the fewer than a dozen mummies extant from Egypt's Old Kingdom, and the only one on this continent, and it belongs to the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Recently conserved after almost a century-long hibernation in storage, it is the star of and impetus for the museum's “Life & Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy.” Egyptologist Peter Lacovara conveys the historical, religious and geographical context for the prized artifact through tomb objects from the Carlos collection -- many acquired with this show in mind -- loans, large-scale photographs and informative texts.
The exhibition designers created a particularly dramatic tableau by transforming a gallery doorway into the entrance to a tomb. The visitor walks through it, just as an ancient Egyptian bringing an offering for the deceased would have done, to reach the offering plate (one of the new Carlos acquisitions), which sits in front of an actual “false door” door of a tomb.
- Exhibition: Life And Death In The Pyramid Age
Michael C. Carlos Museum Acquired from excavations at the sacred site of Abydos in Middle Egypt by Emory Theology Professor, Rev. William A. Shelton in 1920, this mummy is the oldest Egyptian mummy in the Western Hemisphere and one of no more than half...
- Old Kingdom Mummy To Go On View At Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Howard Pousner) With photo. A rarely displayed Egyptian mummy, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, will be the focus of an exhibit next year at Emory University, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. The mummy, which dates to...
- New Egyptian Art In The Permanent Galleries Of The Carlos Museum
Michael C Carlos ENews, February 2009 In preparation for the new exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs the Carlos Museum’s Egyptian Galleries have seen the redesign of a number of cases and the installation of many new loans...
- Exhibition: Wonderful Things At The Michael C. Carlos Museum
Artdaily.org The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition “Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun” at the Michael...
- Ramesses I Mummy
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/149295A very short piece from the Question and Answer section on the Arizona Daily Times web page, about the value of DNA testing mummies:"Question: The Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta had possession of a number...