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Secret Egypt: Unravelling Truth from Myth

Secret Egypt: Unravelling Truth from Myth

Dates

10th March 2012 - 10th June 2012 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location : Art Gallery

Is there a mummy's curse?
Were the Egyptians obsessed with death?
Did aliens build the pyramids?

Such questions are addressed in Secret Egypt, a major exhibition which examines popular modern ideas about the ancient Egyptians and uses objects to suggest that the truth might be otherwise.

The exhibition features around 200 artefacts on loan from major Egyptology collections throughout the UK including Manchester Museum, the Ashmolean and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Moving through six themes, it begins by asking what is real and what is fake via an examination of funerary objects that helped Ancient Egyptians into the sacred world of death before debunking some of the more spurious myths that have grown up around them.

Secret Egypt is a touring exhibition developed by the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry.

AFTERNOON LECTURE WITH DR. CAMPBELL PRICE

On the 23rd of May, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust is proud to present an afternoon lecture with Dr. Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and the Sudan from The Manchester Museum, 'Behind the Gilded Mask of Sheri-ankh: The life and death of an Egyptian woman in the First Millennium BC'.

Dr. Price will share his knowledge of Egyptian culture during the First Millennium BC and in particular, Sheri-ankh, an Egyptian mummy and coffin currently on loan to Tullie House from The Manchester Museum.

Click here for more information on the Lecture and how to book your place.

Dr.Campbell Price, also writes a blog. The latest is all about the Riqqeh Pectoral (below)– which is currently on loan to us in 'Secret Egypt'.