San Francisco’s de Young Museum will host the exclusive American debut of “Treasures of the Pharaohs,” a traveling exhibition featuring rare antiquities on loan from Egypt’s premier museum institutions. The spectacular show will present 130 historic artifacts spanning ancient Egypt’s origins (around 3100 BCE) through its penultimate Third Intermediate Period (1076 to 655 BCE). Curated across six thematic sections, the show explores pharaonic rule, spiritual beliefs, daily life, and Egyptian concepts of mortality. Notably, the exhibition features 20 newly excavated relics from Aten, the lost 3,300-year-old “Golden City” built under Pharaoh Amenhotep III and discovered by archaeologists in 2020. Dubbed the “Pompeii of Egypt,” the standalone Golden City display features daily domestic tools, stone mills, glass vessels, and limestone statues, offering visitors an unprecedented portrait of ancient Egyptian daily life and beliefs about mortality.
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