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5,000 Years Later The Pharaohs Still Rule.
Towering high above the River Nile's Fertile Plain, The colossal monuments of Ancient Egypt remain among the most mysterious on earth. How, one wonders, was such mastery of art and architecture achieved so many millennia ago? What impulses inspired these creative minds to invent one of the first written languages, to develop one of the world's first nation-states and to construct the awesome Pyramids At Giza, largest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Thousands of years later, Archaeologists continue to uncover new clues to the lives and times of a ruling class whose cultural legacy has never been equalled.
Splendors of Ancient Eqypt is a walk through almost 4500 years of history from Predynastic Egypt to the mighty Roman Empire. One will return to the Old Kongdom represented by the still-glistening alabaster figure of the Pharaoh Khaefre who was immortalized in the Great Sphinx at Giza. See Statues of courtiers and their families in stone on which the colors are so fresh and vibrant they appear to have been painted only yesterday. Experience the spectacle of a recreated Columned hall from the fabled Temple of Karnak. Tour galleries dominated by colossal statues of Goddesses and Queens. Discover Dazzling objects such as silver mirror, cosmetic palettes in exotic hardwoods and vessels of pottery, stone and glass.
See a colossal Head of Pharaoh Akhenaton and a lavishly painted relief on which he is accompanied by his charming wife Nefertiti and their daughters. Marvel at a basalt statue identified as Marc Antony, the lover of Cleopatra, and behold the colossal rose-granite temple statue of Pharaoh Tuthmoses III, the Napoleon of Egypt. Witness ancient Egyptian funerary practices as revealed by a series of wall reliefs from their tombs. These reliefs include Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming attending a mummified nobleman and boating scenes in which the deceased is ferried to the hereafter. Enter a chamber illuminated with a star-filled sky, and behold the riches of the royal tombs of Tanis. These golden treasures rival those of the boy king Tut and have never before been exhibited in North America.
   
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