Collection of Egyptian Objects
the British Museum of London, England, presents the spectacular gathering of more than 100,000 objects, among which you will discover a gallery of monumental sculpture and the rich universally appreciated collection of mummies and coffins.
Since the first days of the British Museum’s foundation about 150 Egyptian objects were included in the original collections.
In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte organized the expedition accompanied by scientists who were greatly captured by studying and recording everything about the mysterious world of ancient Egypt. The expedition resulted in arousing a significant interest of Europeans in Egyptian culture. The British Museum was presented with many antiquities confiscated form the French by the British Army in 1803. Among these the Rosetta Stone presented the highest value.
Mohammed Ali who took over the ruling of Egypt after Napoleon wanted to make the country open for foreigners. European administrators settling in Egypt took the opportunity of collecting precious antiquities. British consul, Henry Salt, managed to accumulate two collections contributed to the British Museum collection, later enriched by acquiring a number of papyri.
The Egypt Exploration Fund took care of conducting excavations of antique objects that also were added to the Museum’s collection in the later 1800's. E.A. Wallis Budge, Keeper of the Museum in the period of 1886 -1924, provided the richest source for the collection by regular visits to Egypt and set up an outstanding collection comprising papyri and funerary material.
Nowadays, this important collection of objects shows up every aspect of the Nile Valley life, from the Neolithic period (c. 10 000 BC) until Christian times (12th century AD).
The Museum is responsible for caring, studying, publishing and displaying the collection Replica Omega, as well as organizing special temporary exhibitions both in the Museum and in foreign countries, lending material to international exhibitions, and supporting non-national and other institutions in Great Britain with loans.
The collections provide pursuing continuing fruitful research leading to the improvement of our understanding of ancient Egyptian history, culture and technology. The research also results in appearance of full catalogues classifying groups of objects and making information available to others, as well as magazine articles, and in lectures held inside and outside the Museum.
More recently, the documentation of the collection and the entire holdings of the Museum have been recorded in electronic form as a considerable assistance to interested scholars, students or the public.
The research has also been centered at more varied aspects of Egyptology and managing of excavations and fieldwork, scientific analysis and examination Soccer Jersey wholesale, historical themes or the cooperation of ancient Egypt with other cultures.
The year 2003 marked the agreement between the British Museum and the Bowers Museum of Santa Ana, California, about demonstrating the incredible collections of Ancient Egypt culture and providing a special service to visitors and students not able to travel to Britain. Beginning with April 2005, the Bowers Museum has featured a superb collection of 140 objects taken from the British Museum called "Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt."
The exhibition provides the deepest penetration into the world of mummification, presenting the high-quality Egyptian mummies and coffins that have not been exhibited for many years.
It proves to all the visitors that the Egyptians possessed a unique approach towards death and the resurrection. The extensive exhibition comprises 14 mummies with coffins and illustrates the amazing knowledge and ritual of preparing and sending the dead into the afterlife in ancient Egypt. It witnesses furnishings created specifically for an individual's coffin, such as impressive gold jewelry and a wooden boat to carry the dead into the underworld.
Besides mummies and coffins, the exhibition features embalming, sarcophagi, shabti figures, magic and ritual, amulets, papyri, as well as the process of mummification.
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