A collaborative museum visit examines artifacts from ancient Egypt and beyond, including statues, inscriptions, and reused stonework. Observations focus on craftsmanship, later alterations, and how ...

Museum display, representation, and ancient Egypt -- To pleasurably serve the mind : the didactic study collections of the early modern period -- Wondrous curiosities : the display of the Sloane ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.