✧ Content warning: this blog post on Golden Mummies contains photographs and mentions of deceased persons. ✧ The special exhibition Golden Mummies of Egypt landed at the Buffalo Museum of Science earlier this year and will be on display until January 3, 2021. Drawing exclusively from the vast Egypt and Sudan collection of Manchester Museum, the exhibition…
Category: Museums
A Roman Villa in California: the Getty
Soon after Octavian defeated Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Egypt became part of the Roman Empire. The Nile Scribes have previously presented a Reader’s Guide to Roman Egypt and written about the famous mummy portraits that became popular during this period. This week we have the pleasure to welcome back guest blogger Stephen Ficalora…
Excavating the Archive of the Harvard-Boston Expedition to Sudan
A month from now, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will welcome visitors to a temporary exhibition ‘Ancient Nubia Now‘ that will showcase over four hundred Nubian artifacts excavated between 1910-1930. This week, we are pleased to host Nicholas Brown as guest scribe to share his experiences ‘excavating’ the MFA archives this summer in…
4 Nile Valley Exhibits in North America this Fall
This month many of us are preparing for another academic semester, as teachers or as students. This fall promises to be an exciting season as several compelling exhibitions will be on display in North American museums in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, and Quebec. The Nile Scribes are excited about these four upcoming exhibitions about the Nile Valley cultures…
Exploring Toronto’s Coptic Museum
The Coptic Faith emerged in Egypt over 2,000 years ago and the Coptic Orthodox Church still makes up a sizable minority of the Egyptian population today. Several Coptic churches now call the Greater Toronto Area their home, but in 1987 Toronto became the first city in all of North America to host a Coptic church:…
A Mummy Portrait Returns to the Royal Ontario Museum
Excavations during the late nineteenth century in Egypt’s Fayum revealed a large number of mummy portraits dating to Roman times. The portraits display the faces of many inhabitants of Roman Egypt in a naturalised fashion and these quickly became popular around the world. Recently, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto reacquired a mummy portrait…
Papyri in the Victoria University Collection: Hibeh I 54
In the mid twentieth century, the University of Toronto built a new library to house its vast research collections. Today, Robarts Library is not only known as one of the largest university libraries in North America, but also impresses with its brutalist architecture. The Nile Scribes recently visited a collection of Egyptian papyri in possession of…
Visiting the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen
This week, our guest blogger Katherine Piper is back from Copenhagen to share her thoughts on the Egyptian galleries at the Glyptoteket. The Glyptoteket boasts a stunning collection of Egyptian and Nubian objects, many of which were acquired through the sponsorship of such notable archaeologists as W.M. Flinders Petrie, John Garstang, and Francis Llewellyn Griffith.
“Egypt: The Time of the Pharaohs” at the Royal BC Museum
It has been over 14 years since the British Museum’s Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum was displayed on the Canadian West Coast. Now, ancient Egypt returns to Victoria, BC with Egypt: the Time of the Pharaohs at the Royal BC Museum. On display until December 31, 2018, it features over 300 artefacts…
Meeting the “Queens of Egypt” in Montréal
Having opened in early April at Pointe-à-Callière in Montréal, Canada, the new exhibition Reines d’Égypte (Queens of Egypt) invites visitors on a tour of the east and west banks of the Nile during the New Kingdom. The Nile Scribes were able to visit Pointe-à-Callière this summer and see this special exhibition for ourselves. Including objects from temple, palace, and…
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