Posted on 03/01/2007 11:58:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, boasts treasures galore.
They include one of the world's oldest surviving dresses from about 2400 B.C., royal art from the palace-city of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertiti, a gold mummy mask, jewelry, stone sculpture and objects of daily life ranging from copper tweezers to a ceramic rat trap.
The exhibit is on view through July 22 at the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art in South Hadley, and in connection with it, the museum is hosting a series of events relating to ancient Egypt. Today at 4:30 p.m. in Gamble Auditorium, Catharine Roehrig, curator of the Egyptian art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will discuss "Distaff Discoveries: Women in Early Egyptology."
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
from a year ago:
Expert's legendary finds tour in exhibit [ Flinders Petrie ]
Rocky Mountain News | March 2, 2006 | Ellen R. Stapleton
Posted on 03/02/2006 11:42:06 AM EST by SunkenCiv
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