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[fajrdrako]

This evening I went with Sandi and Lyn to the Museum of Civilization to see the Ancient Egyptian exhibit, Tombs of Eternity, and, even better, to see the IMAX movie, Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs.



The exhibit was not large, but it was beautiful.

The movie was fun. It had me thinking about how often in my life I have seen the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs and priests depicted as villains - in Biblical epics, in things like The Mummy. But this film did some reenactment of scenes from the time of Rameses II, and it was a thrill to me to see the Egyptian costumes, and the historical characters depicted without prejudice.

There were three levels to the movie; it showed, as background, the mummification process and the ceremonies of the time of Ramesses II; it showed the events of 1881 as Charles Wilbur discovered Rasmesses' tomb; and it showed current-day studies of modern mummification processes in attempts to study and understand the chemistry of mummy DNA.

And all this with many gorgeous scenes of Egyptian statues and carving at places like Abu Simbel, Karnak, and Luxor.

Comments

[filkferengi]

mmegaera forgot to recommend _Amelia Peabody's Egypt_ by Elizabeth Peters, just in case you haven't seen it yet. It's a huge book, full of lovely pictures. Also, as Barbara Mertz, she wrote famous Egyptology textbooks you might enjoy.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My local library carries this, too - excellent! thank you.

[filkferengi]

You're very welcome. I look forward to finding out how you like it.