Anicent egypt

Throughout history, humankind has struggled to understand the fundamental workings of the material world. We've endeavoured to discover the rules and patterns that determine the qualities of...

[music] Greetings in the name of the Great Spirit. This Tablet of Ancient Egypt and the Tree of Life, called the Tablet of Hy'yi, are closely related and were in use among the ancient orders...

Karnak - Miniature Sphinxes by TravelPod member cliffanddoris Karnak - Statue of Ramses II and daughter by TravelPod member cliffanddoris Karnak - The Hypostyle Hall with enormous columns by TravelPod...

What did people need in order to reach the afterlife? One of the most interesting objects is a Shabty, one of these magical figures that people took with them in their tombs in order to do the work...

The people of ancient Egypt did not have scientific explanations for natural phenomena. They believed sunshine and the great Nile River were gifts from their many gods. The beliefs of the ancient...

This is our mummy named Demetrios. We actually put his face back on his body. The portrait was actually on display for a number of periods of years, whereas his body has never been on display. So part...

CT scan is short for Computed Tomography, which is a kind of medical imaging that captures a three dimensional image of the object including the interior of the object. It's based on a series...

My favorite object in this exhibition is the coffin that belonged actually to two different women. It was originally made for a woman named Weretwahset at the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty. It...

The Book of the Dead of the gold worker of Amun Sobekmosa came into the collection in 1937. In 1967, a team of people who worked with papyrus came to Brooklyn from Paris. Once it was unrolled, because...