Ancient Egypt

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Join us for a journey through 5000 years of human life in the Nile Valley. Whether it’s learning about ancient burial practices, exploring Egypt’s relationship with other civilisations, or reading spells from the Book of the Dead, the gallery will give you a flavour of what it was like to live in ancient Egypt and how you could achieve eternal life.

The gallery showcases 1200 objects from National Museums Liverpool’s ancient Egyptian and Nubian collection of around 20,000 items. Displays tell the story of Liverpool’s connections with excavations carried out in Egypt and Sudan, and how thousands of artefacts became part of the World Museum collection. See objects damaged when the museum was wrecked by bombs in May 1941, now on display for the first time since the Second World War.

Highlights include the Ramesses Girdle, a rare item of royal clothing; Papyrus Mayer B, a unique account of a tomb robbery in the Valley of the Kings; a gold ring that belonged to King Amenhotep II; the intact burial group of Nesshutefnut, a priest of who served at the temple of Horus at Edfu; and the Book of the Dead of Djedhor, a beautifully illustrated papyrus scroll 4 metres in length, displayed in full for the first time since it was excavated in 1905.