Egyptian culture in the interior of Brazil

ANBA - Arab Brazil News Agency (Isaura Daniel)

The city is in the interior of Brazil, but that is no reason for lack of Egyptian culture. In the city of Ponta Grossa, located 156 kilometres away from Curitiba, the capital of the state of Paraná, a small museum satisfies the curiosity of the local community regarding the land of the pharaohs. The Archaeology Museum has in exhibition 260 replicas of objects from the birth of Ancient Egypt. They are from small amulets to larger items, like a bust of Nefertiti or a reproduction of a sarcophagus that is in the British Museum. The site also houses an original object and a mask of a mummy from the second century B.C.

According to Egyptologist Moacir Elias Santos, the owner of the museum, the mask was acquired in France and donated to the museum. The existing information about the object is that it is a male mask made in papyrus, gypsum and linen. The replicas that are part of the museum's collection were made by artist Eduardo Vilela and also by Santos himself.

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