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Golden Mummies of Egypt closed on 14 April 2024 after a blockbuster run that welcomed more than a million visitors in China, the USA and Manchester.
It was the first exhibition to grace the new Exhibition Hall at Manchester Museum after it reopened in February 2023 and explored mummies, gold and an obsessive belief in the afterlife. These concepts are all central to our image of ‘Ancient Egypt’ but how important were they to the Egyptians, and how long did they survive after the last of the Pharaohs?
Golden Mummies of Egypt focused on expectations of a life after death during the relatively little-known ‘Graeco-Roman’ Period of Egyptian history – when Egypt was ruled first by a Greek royal family, ending with Queen Cleopatra VII, then by Roman emperors (between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Wealthy members of this multicultural society made elaborate preparations for the afterlife, combining Egyptian, Greek, and Roman ideals of eternal beauty.
Manchester Museum cares for 18,000 objects from Egypt and Sudan. Excavated at a time of British rule of Egypt in the 1880s-1910s, our responses to these objects may reveal more about ourselves than about the people who made and used them. Keep scrolling to find out more!
Egypt was always in contact with neighbouring cultures, and was never as isolated as it is often portrayed. Plentiful evidence survives for trade with Nubia to the south of Egypt and around the Mediterranean for centuries under the Pharaohs, and many non-Egyptians came to live in Egypt. But relations between peoples were not always peaceful and there were sometimes violent struggles for power. During the Graeco-Roman Period, some of these events are recorded in papyrus documents.
A dynasty of Macedonian origin called the Ptolemies ruled Egypt from 323-30 BCE. They built their capital at Alexandria on the coast looking towards their homeland, but they appeared as traditional Pharaohs temple walls throughout Egypt. They developed farmland in the fertile Faiyum area to house new settlers from Greece and Rome; much of the exhibition’s objects derive from this area.
from : https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/golden-mummies/
Golden Mummies of Egypt closed on 14 April 2024 after a blockbuster run that welcomed more than a million visitors in China, the USA and Manchester.
It was the first exhibition to grace the new Exhibition Hall at Manchester Museum after it reopened in February 2023 and explored mummies, gold and an obsessive belief in the afterlife. These concepts are all central to our image of ‘Ancient Egypt’ but how important were they to the Egyptians, and how long did they survive after the last of the Pharaohs?
Golden Mummies of Egypt focused on expectations of a life after death during the relatively little-known ‘Graeco-Roman’ Period of Egyptian history – when Egypt was ruled first by a Greek royal family, ending with Queen Cleopatra VII, then by Roman emperors (between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Wealthy members of this multicultural society made elaborate preparations for the afterlife, combining Egyptian, Greek, and Roman ideals of eternal beauty.
Manchester Museum cares for 18,000 objects from Egypt and Sudan. Excavated at a time of British rule of Egypt in the 1880s-1910s, our responses to these objects may reveal more about ourselves than about the people who made and used them. Keep scrolling to find out more!
Egypt was always in contact with neighbouring cultures, and was never as isolated as it is often portrayed. Plentiful evidence survives for trade with Nubia to the south of Egypt and around the Mediterranean for centuries under the Pharaohs, and many non-Egyptians came to live in Egypt. But relations between peoples were not always peaceful and there were sometimes violent struggles for power. During the Graeco-Roman Period, some of these events are recorded in papyrus documents.
A dynasty of Macedonian origin called the Ptolemies ruled Egypt from 323-30 BCE. They built their capital at Alexandria on the coast looking towards their homeland, but they appeared as traditional Pharaohs temple walls throughout Egypt. They developed farmland in the fertile Faiyum area to house new settlers from Greece and Rome; much of the exhibition’s objects derive from this area.
from : https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/golden-mummies/
Jl. Otista Raya No.125-127, RT.9/RW.8 Bidara Cina, Kecamatan Jatinegara Kota Jakarta Timur, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 13330
Jl. Otista Raya No.125-127, RT.9/RW.8 Bidara Cina, Kecamatan Jatinegara Kota Jakarta Timur, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 13330
