Museum visitors eager to experience Egyptology exhibition
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Museum visitors eager to experience Egyptology exhibition

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The exhibition also shows cat sculptures. Yan Haiying, a professor of history from Peking University, who is the chief curator of the exhibition, suggests visitors begin their tour from the first chapter, The Land of the Pharaohs, which presents an overview of ancient Egyptian civilization. Among the statues, treasures and papyrus, visitors will find ink rubbings on Chinese rice paper of the Egyptian memorial plaques. Duan was so fascinated with the mysterious Egyptian writing that he had some plaques reproduced with cement and rubbings made on Chinese paper, which he gave to friends. He "started a wide curiosity for Egypt among intellectuals in the early 1900s", Yan says.

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Museum visitors eager to experience Egyptology exhibition
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Museum visitors eager to experience Egyptology exhibition

China Daily  

The exhibition also shows cat sculptures. Yan Haiying, a professor of history from Peking University, who is the chief curator of the exhibition, suggests visitors begin their tour from the first chapter, The Land of the Pharaohs, which presents an overview of ancient Egyptian civilization. Among the statues, treasures and papyrus, visitors will find ink rubbings on Chinese rice paper …

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