Inside Ancient Egypt. Ongoing. At The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
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...