Royal BC Museum - Egypt in the Time of the Pharaohs

The Royal BC museum brought in an exhibit on Egypt in the time of the pharaohs and will be here until the 31st of December. My wife and I took her parents whom were in town and we all quite enjoyed it.

It was divided into eight areas that each told a different part of life in Egypt during that time: landscape and climate, Religion and the Gods, the pharaohs, sacred spaces, script and the emergence of state, personal adornment, and secret spaces.

Some of the artifacts features are over 4000 years old and are types that I had not seen in person before. The flow of travel through the exhibit give an excellent view of Egyptian life as a jumping off point for more discovery.

 Bronze shrew, 6th to 3rd century BCE. It was quite tiny!

 Wooden boat from ~1800 BCE.

Stele and statues of Bes, the Egyptian god who defended households, mothers, children and represented childbirth. Started before the dynastic Nile times and spread to Syria and the Roman Empire.

 Glass from 1550-1200 BCE.

  Tomb Stela of Ta-Mut-Ankh, daughter of a priest, 664-525 BCE.

 Statue of the Falcon avatar of Horus of Nemty. 

 Stela of a female singer, 3rd century BCE.

 Painter's palette with five colours, 1550-1100 BCE.

 Collar with pomegranate pendants, 3rd to 1st century BCE.

 Stela of Iunu, an important administrator for King Khufu whom was given the title of "son of a king". One of the best preserved of its kind. It shows all the preferred foods that Iunu would like to eat in the afterlife.

Looking forward to next years exhibit on the Maya.