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The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...
At the British Museum Walker curated a number of major exhibitions, including Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt at the British Museum in 1997. In 2004 she became the Sackler Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum , [ 2 ] and she had a key role in the redevelopment of the museum's displays.
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
O'Connell curated the British Museum exhibition Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs in 2015-2016, [11] which examined the different faiths in Egypt from the Roman period to the arrival of Islam. The exhibition started with objects from c.30 BC, when Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire after the death of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, and then ...
It was first shown in London at the British Museum in 1972. After a year of negotiations between Egypt and the United Kingdom, an agreement was signed in July 1971. Altogether, 50 pieces were chosen by the directors of the British Museum and the Cairo Museum to be shown at the exhibition, including 17 never before displayed outside Egypt. For ...
Otago Museum mummy Ptolemaic Female 1893 — The mummy held by Otago Museum is the body of an elderly woman. [53] She was donated to the museum in 1894 by the local businessman Bendix Hallenstein, who purchased her mummy from a German consular agent in Luxor, Egypt. [54] Our Lady of the Nile: 21st: Female Unknown
In 1827, Léon de Laborde brought two portraits, supposedly found in Memphis, to Europe, one of which can today be seen at the Louvre, the other in the British Museum. Ippolito Rosellini, a member of Jean-François Champollion's 1828–29 expedition to Egypt, brought a further portrait back to Florence.