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Exhibition: Book of the Dead at the British Museum
Image via Wikipedia Next month, the most comprehensive exhibition to be staged on the ancient doctrine of denying death will open inside the Reading Room at the British Museum. It will showcase, for the first time, the entire length of the Greenfield Papyrus, which, at 37 metres, lays out each detailed stage of a journey... »
Interesting idea to recreate what the Great Library of Alexandria was like
Image via Wikipedia While I (John Gaudet) was there (the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina) I made the argument… that they should consider an idea put forward by Hassan Ragab, an old friend of mine who passed away in 2004. He suggested that hundreds of scrolls could be reproduced to stock a small section of the New... »
The Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, California
San Jose’s Rosicrucian Museum, an 81-year-old institution with more than 150,000 visitors annually, is home to the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on the West Coast and is the only museum in the world to be designed in ancient Egyptian architectural style. Holding more than 4,000 artifacts, the Rosicrucian Museum is also the North American... »
Exhibition review: Gates of Heaven at the Louvre
Image via Wikipedia Ancient Egyptian tombs and mortuary temples usually featured stone stelae, or markers, which were carved to resemble doors or gateways, and these seem to have had a symbolic function as ways of access to the dead. Investigation of the function of such gateways is one part of the exhibition’s remit, but the... »
Book Review: The Smiting Texts
Author: Roy Lester Pond Published by Austin Macauley 372pp A controversial Egyptologist is hired to avert a clash between two world superpowers thousands of years apart Mr. Anson Hunter is an Egyptologist not so comfortable with the term. A phenomenologist who specializes in what the author calls fringe Egyptology, Hunter interprets arcane Egyptian belief in a way that... »
Royal Ontario Museum Brings Scroll and 130 Artifacts Out of Storage
This third installment of the ROM’s Out of the Vaults series, which highlights rarely seen objects from its collections for a limited period of time, is part of the museum’s Egypt Month festivities and on view in the third-floor Centre Block from February 28 to May 10, 2009. The exhibition includes funerary masks and... »
Green magic protected child mummies
A rare mummified child from the early period of Egyptian history was discovered buried with a bright green amulet stone once believed to hold magical powers, according to a new study. The finds help to explain why hieroglyphics and historical texts record that Egyptian children wore green eye makeup. It also adds to the growing... »
