Antiquities Exhibits

Archaeological collections from Egypt and Sudan - Ongoing at The Petrie Museum in London, United Kingdom. The Petrie Museum houses one of the largest archaeological collections in the world, some 80,000 objects, for Egypt and Sudan. It is named after William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), appointed in 1892 as first University College London Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology. Over three-quarters of the material comes from excavations directed or funded by Petrie, or from purchases he made for university teaching. Here you can see the Tarkhan Dress, the world's oldest surviving woven garmet, a v-neck linen shirt  radiocarbon dated to the late fourth-millennium BC. Gilded cartonnage mummy mask from the Roman Period. 5th Dynasty bead-net dress Roman period mummy portrait from the Fayum region

Our Dark Materials: Rediscovering an Egyptian Collection.  Through May 16, 2019 at the Stanford Archaeology Center in Stanford, California.   Although some museums like the Neues in Berlin have superb intact examples, many more are assembled from such fragments as you can see in this picture I took at the Petrie Museum in London a couple of years ago. The exhibit presents new examination of a forgotten collection. Artifacts from ancient Egypt provide insight into experiences of ordinary Egyptians in daily life and death. The exhibit features original artifacts, stone tools, such as a ceremonial knife, as well as ceramic containers and figurines, collected by the Stanford family and others around the turn of the 20th century including those damaged in the 1906 earthquake.