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Friday 20 May 2011 To Live Forever moves to Nevada

On tour from the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum is moving to the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, June 11, 2011 - September 4, 2011.

Exploring ancient Egyptian beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife, To Live Forever features more than 100 objects including mummies, statuary, sarcophagi, coffins, gold jewellery, and elegantly-crafted vessels, the exhibition includes some of the greatest masterworks of Egyptian artistic heritage. The exhibition also helps to explain the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and different types of tombs—answering questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt.

To Live Forever To Live Forever Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
Edward Bleiberg. With an essay by Kathlyn M. Cooney

Original look at the ancient Egyptian fascination with death

To Live Forever moves to Frist Center

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