http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200604210124.html
What is it about ancient Egypt and its death-obsessed, aesthetically rigid and alien culture that still fascinates us today? Part of its draw is its very "otherness" and almost imponderable antiquity. Yet there's much to engage the emotions at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum's compelling exhibition of 113 artworks and relics from ancient Egypt on loan from the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany."
What is it about ancient Egypt and its death-obsessed, aesthetically rigid and alien culture that still fascinates us today? Part of its draw is its very "otherness" and almost imponderable antiquity. Yet there's much to engage the emotions at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum's compelling exhibition of 113 artworks and relics from ancient Egypt on loan from the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany."
See the above page for more about the exhibition and for details about this and other venues to which the exhibition will be touring.
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