Antiquities Exhibits

.The exhibition, "Kings of the Sun", which will run until Feb. 7, 2021, will display 90 artifacts unearthed by the Czech archaeological mission working on the site of Abu Sir in Egypt's Giza governorate. Chief among these treasures is the head of a statue of King Ra-Nefer-F produced around the year 2460 BCE. Abu-Sir is a royal burial ground with three pyramids built during the Fifth Dynasty. The display will encompass artifacts from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE and include an extensive collection of statues from the tombs of Princess Sheretnebty and the scribe Nefer discovered in 2012. Statues of a writer, senior statesmen, and royal staff as well as canopic jars, and Faience ushabti figurines will be presented. Image: Old Kingdom statue of an Egyptian couple from the exhibit "Kings of the Sun" courtesy of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

Inside Ancient Egypt. Ongoing. At The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Inside Ancient Egypt is an up-close look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians—as well as how they thought about death. Enter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian tomb, that houses two authentic chamber rooms from the burial site of 5th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Unis’s son Unis-Ankh. The burial chamber, which dates to 240 0 BC, houses one of the largest collections of mummies in the United States: 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies. The exhibition also features a recreation of an ancient marketplace reconstructed from market scenes depicted on tomb walls. Filled with goods and people, the marketplace offers hands-on learning through the everyday activities that occurred in this bustling cultural center. The exhibit also includes A 4,000-year-old royal boat that belonged to Pharaoh Senwosret III, Scenes from the Nile River Valley, and a shrine to the cat-goddess Ba...