The Tutankhamun Exhibition Dorchester, now in its 21st year, is displaying, amongst other wonderful facsimiles from the tomb, the world famous Gold Death Mask, the Golden Throne and Tutankhamun’s mummy.
This small but unique and beautiful book is bursting with delicious food from the past. Tutankhamun’s Cook Book is the first of a new concept of popular cook books based on accurate historical evidence.
The result of extensive research, Jackie Ridley had broughrt together a series of mouth-watering ancient Egyptian dishes adapted for today. They are [...]
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A new statue has been added to the collection of exact recreations of Tutankhamun’s treasures. This is a superb statue of Selkit, the Scorpion Goddess, one of the four goddesses guarding Tutankhamun’s canopic shrine.
The statue of Selkit is approximately one metre tall and depicts the Scorpion Goddess as a beautiful woman with an emblem of [...]
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In ancient Egypt the chair was a symbol of status, prestige and authority. This magnificent golden throne is perhaps the finest of all thrones yet found from any ancient civilization.
It was discovered under the hippopotamus couch in the antechamber, covered with a pall of blackened linen. Constructed in elaborately carved wood in the form of [...]
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