Exhibition: Hong Kong to dispaly items from British Museum

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The Hong Kong Museum of Art announced here Wednesday that it will hold an exhibition which provide the public with a rare opportunity to view some 270 artifacts selected from the British Museum.

Running from Sept. 14 to Dec. 2, the exhibition entitled Treasures of the World's Cultures from the British Museum, will feature about 270 artifacts covering a vast span of time from two million years ago to the present day.

The exhibits include sculptures, ceramics, wood carvings, jewelry, drawings and prints selected to give visitors a glimpse of the diversified arts and cultures of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, the Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, Korea, America and Oceania. Highlight items include an Egyptian wooden mummy-board "The Unlucky Mummy" of early 22nd Dynasty dated about 945 BC.

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