ancient egypt Archives - Julia Thorne

A man with his young son in the World Museum Egyptian galleries. They're in front of a large photo of the temple at Abu Simbel. The boy is dressed up in a pharaoh's costume and is looking up at his daddy, who's doing an Egyptian dance

Journal

Opening day at the new Egyptian galleries, World Museum

ByJulia May 10, 2017August 18, 2017

On 28 April 2017, the World Museum in Liverpool opened its newly refurbished Egyptian galleries, after nearly two years of work. Being an Egyptophile, I was, of course, at the museum for when the doors opened at 10.00.

Although I wanted to get some photos of the gallery itself to share on my Egyptology blog, I wanted to do a bit of documentary work too. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had the chance to indulge in a bit of street-style photography.

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Part of a painting showing an ancient egyptian lady bowing in front of an altar, with burning incense.on the wall behind her are traditional egyptian scenes of offering tables with servants bringing food to lay on them

Exhibitions

‘Animal mummies’ exhibition at the Manchester Museum

ByJulia April 22, 2016August 18, 2017

On 15 April 2016, we had a family trip to the Manchester Museum to see the Animal Mummies: Gifts for the Gods exhibition.

The theme of the exhibition was the mummification of animals in Ancient Egypt – why they were mummified and the religious cults with which they were associated. The exhibition also covered the more modern archaeological history of animal mummies and the recent scientific research that’s been done on them.

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Heritage

The Egyptian sculpture gallery at the British Museum

ByJulia July 1, 2015August 18, 2017

I was down in London in November 2013 and was in the Bloomsbury area of London, so it’d have been rude not to stop in at the good ol’ BM. It was a lovely sunny day, and because of the time of year with the sun being low in the sky, the light was streaming…