MYSTERIES OF THE NECROPOLIS A guided tour of the Egyptian funerary artefacts at the Petrie Museum on Thursday 11th October 2018 at 6:30 pm The Petrie Museum, based on the personal collection of Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie, who taught Howard Carter, is one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world,. It now houses over 80,000 objects, showing the development of Egyptian culture, science and daily life from prehistoric to Roman times. This tour will reveal the hidden narratives behind a range of ancient Egyptian funerary artefacts including an introduction to the museum's Egyptian Book of the Dead and its fifth dynasty bead net funerary dress.
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