National Museum Prague: A Journey through History
By Shazia Anwer Cheema
Dramatic music, magic night, hundreds of objects – welcome to the Kings of the Sun exhibition! In an exceptional international integrational project that documents the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists connected with the research of the Egyptian Abusir, an ancient royal burial ground adjacent to Giza in the north and Sakkara in the south.
Take the unique opportunity to see generous loans from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Great Egyptian Museum in Giza, but also from museums in Berlin, Leipzig, Hanover, Heidelberg, Hildesheim, and Frankfurt and Main. Last but not the least, you will see objects that the National Museum acquired as a Czechoslovak contribution to the finding made by the expedition of Charles University in Abusir. There are treasures from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC, such as the unique royal statue of King Raneferef, one of the four pharaohs buried in Abusir, o
Hanover
Niedersachsen
Germany
Cairo
Al-qahirah
Egypt
Giza
Al-jizah
Egyptian-museum
Abusir
Hildesheim
Praha