The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" at the Royal Ontario Museum displays its recently conserved religious scroll and some 130 related artifacts usually in storage.
This third installment of the ROM's Out of the Vaults series, which highlights rarely seen objects from its collections for a limited period of time, is part of the museum's Egypt Month festivities and on view in the third-floor Centre Block from February 28 to May 10, 2009. The exhibition includes funerary masks and portraits, protective amulets, a stone coffin lid's head, a complete sarcophagus, a Roman Period child's mummy and shawabtis or carved statuettes assigned to perform the daily work of the deceased in the afterlife.
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