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Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun
The Penn Museum hosts more than 100 artifacts from ancient Egypt
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Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun
Photo courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
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Also at Penn Museum
To complement the Amarna exhibition, Penn Museum’s renowned Upper and Lower Egyptian Galleries are becoming even more visitor-friendly with new informational panels and labels.
Materials range from monumental architecture to sculptures, pottery, jewelry, tomb goods, and mummies.
A huge, twelve-ton granite sphinx dominates the Lower Egyptian Gallery, which houses one of the finest collections of Egyptian architecture on display in the United States.
The Upper Egyptian Gallery is home to the Museum’s finest examples of Egyptian sculpture. Highlights include massive stone sarcophaguses, and inlaid bronzes of the deities Osiris, primary god of the afterlife, and the warrior goddess Neith.
The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science
This popular exhibition at Penn Museum will give you an in-depth look at the ancient Egyptian beliefs in the afterlife, featuring human and animal mummies, tomb artifacts, and objects and materials used in the mummification process.
Learn more about The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science.
This Exhibition has been extended indefinitely.
Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, will remain open as a long-term exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Amarna, one of Egypt's most rebellious and short-lived cities, dates back 3,300 years as the place where King Tutankhamun spent his childhood.
The Amarna Period in ancient Egyptian history has fascinated archaeologists, historians and everyday knowledge-seekers for centuries. During your visit to the exhibit, you will see more than 100 artifacts that will bring this fascinating era to life.
Use archaeological “clues” — drawings, maps, photography and computer recreations — to rediscover the once-thriving royal court of Amarna. Learn of Amarna’s incredible rise to power — and then of its amazing and abrupt decline.
The considerable collection of artifacts on display supplies the evidence for the exhibition’s storyline, which will take you on a visual and intellectual journey from before the Amarna Period to the end of the 18th Dynasty.
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