Egypt
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The Korea Times
See the above page for the entire review.
- 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...
- Exhibition: 5,000 Years Of Egyptian Legend
The Seoul Times (Karen Kim) The National Museum of Korea will hold the "5,000 Years of Egyptian Legend" exhibition from April 28 to August 30, 2009 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its opening. The large-scale Egyptian exhibition will be hosted...
- Mummies Found In Ancient Egypt Burial Chamber
drhawass.com With photograph A necropolis consisting of 53 rock-cut tombs dating to the Middle (ca. 2061-1786 BC) and New (ca. 1569-1081 BC) Kingdoms and the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission sponsored...
- 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...
Egypt
Three photos of the newsly discovered Faiyum mummies
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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. Here's a rough tranlsation of the caption on the first photo:
Dozens of mummies in sarcophagi of painted wood were discovered during an archaeological expedition to the southeast of Illahun, in El Fayum, south of Cairo. According to experts they date to the Middle Kingdom, aand the New Kingdom. They are decorated in traditional colors, made from terracotta. Together with the mummies, decorative masks and other artifacts were also found.
The Korea Times
To show off the cultural heritage of Egyptian civilization, the National Museum of Korea will hold a special exhibition, ``Egypt, the Great Civilization,'' from April 28 to Aug. 30.
``I'm glad to host this extraordinary exhibition at the museum on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its opening. This is the largest-ever exhibition of Egyptian civilization here,'' Choe Kwang-shik, the museum's director, said during a press conference.
The exhibition presents 231 artifacts chosen from "Egypt-Oriental Collection" from Kunsthistorisches Museum of Austria, covering 300 years of Egyptian civilization. Aside from well-known mummies and objects related to pharaohs, images of deities, amulets, makeup tools, hieroglyphic papyri, diverse tools and receptacles, as well as burial goods, will be on display.
Egyptian art involves metal and wooden crafts, calligraphy, and ceramics and sculptures of gods and goddesses. From a 1cm amulet to 197cm statue of the goddess Sekhmet and from a mirror to a coffin, artifacts were chosen to present the various worldviews and wishes of ancient Egyptians.
See the above page for the entire review.
- 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...
- Exhibition: 5,000 Years Of Egyptian Legend
The Seoul Times (Karen Kim) The National Museum of Korea will hold the "5,000 Years of Egyptian Legend" exhibition from April 28 to August 30, 2009 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its opening. The large-scale Egyptian exhibition will be hosted...
- Mummies Found In Ancient Egypt Burial Chamber
drhawass.com With photograph A necropolis consisting of 53 rock-cut tombs dating to the Middle (ca. 2061-1786 BC) and New (ca. 1569-1081 BC) Kingdoms and the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission sponsored...
- 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...