Recommended reading | Hurry up to make an appointment to watch the Nanshan Museum of ancient Egypt Mumini Exhibition

If the pyramid is a symbol of Pharaoh's power, then Mumini shows that the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with eternal life. The ancient Egyptians believe that if people want to continue to enjoy this wonderful world after their death, they must keep their bodies in good preservation, so the ancient Egyptians made the body of the deceased into mummy.

Today, mummy is regarded as a treasure of human history, and major museums in the world are proud of Egyptian mummy. The large -scale international tour exhibition "Eternal Face -Golden Mummy of Ancient Egypt", which is famous for its ancient Egyptian collections, came to Shenzhen Nanshan Museum, attracting a lot of attention. The exhibition will end on September 11. It has now entered the countdown. Interested citizens must hurry up to make an appointment to watch the exhibition. Recently, the Nanshan Museum will also launch several interesting public education activities such as the "Disappearing God" immersive theater. Although this exhibition is famous for making an appointment, it may be lucky to come in the end.

▲ The Golden Mummy of ancient Egypt attracted the attention of many citizens. Photo by the reporter Yu Haihong, a Shenzhen Evening News

Mummy was once

The "God Medicine" that is taken to take it

Entering the exhibition hall, the most striking space in the dark tone is the six glittering golden mummy in different exhibition areas, all from ancient Egypt in the "Greek-Rome" period around the 1st century AD.

Mummyho is full of various puzzles. Many people want to unveil the corpse cloth and see what is hidden inside? One of the highlights displayed on the Nanshan Museum this time is the Mummy CT scanning display screen, showing the appearance of mummy coffin, to the body, to the body to the bones, and can also calculate age from the development of the body of the corpse, inferred from the skin folds from the skin folds. The weight of the deceased during his lifetime. There is also a video in the exhibition hall to introduce the production process of mummy and reveal the mystery of the immortal millennium.

▲ Citizens watch the ancient Egyptian mummy exhibition. Shenzhen Evening News reporter Yu Haihong Photo

Mummy was actually made into a corpse after the death, and its production process was very complicated. Many contemporary people think that the word "mummy" is equivalent to "dry corpse". In fact, "Mummy" is the transliteration of English Mummy, derived from the Persian Mumiai, which means asphalt.

Doctors in the ancient Islamic world believe that natural asphalt has a wonderful effect on treating various human diseases. Although there is no direct connection between the dry corpses and asphalt of ancient Egypt, because the black hard shell on the surface of the mummy is like the cool asphalt. I think this is asphalt, so the meaning of "mummy" was stolen.

In the 18th century, mummy was more expensive than gold. At that time, when people saw Mummy, they would not only be afraid, but they were generally ecstatic when they saw "Xian Dan". I believe that Mummy's "magical effect" is not only ordinary people, but also the king and noble rich people. At the European banquet in the Middle Ages, the owner was often ordered to take a small piece of powder from the mummy and add it to everyone's red wine. The guests were swallowed into the belly.

Until 1985, the European government officially introduced relevant regulations to prohibit anyone from selling mummy in any form. Later, Europeans' enthusiasm for mummy was adapted into a movie "Mummy".

"Eternal Face"

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It is particularly noteworthy that this exhibition exhibited several mummy portraits in the Roman period- "Fram Portrait", and this exhibition was named "Eternal Face", so why is it focused on the "face"?

In 1888, the world -renowned Astone Oscar Wang Erd saw the colorful, lifelike, and modern Faumami portrait in the Portrait Museum of London for the first time. When he looked at the portrait eyes, he was shocked by the eternal gaze that penetrated the soul. After returning, he wrote the inspiration of these portraits into his masterpiece "Portrait of Daolin Gray". What magic is these historic mummy portraits, can they impress the proud genius Wang Erde?

The mummy portrait of the Roman period is the so -called "Facuum Portrait". It was one of the most striking portraits in the ancient world. They were discovered in the 1880s and changed people's views on art development. Although this type of mummy painted paintings have been discovered throughout Egypt, there are particularly many from the Farum region. These portraits are mixed with hot wax and paint, and are drawn on a thin wooden board, showing the realistic effect that conforms to modern taste. The characters in the portrait are delicate, full of lips, and a melancholy look in the pupils, with the quietness and depth of classical Greek naturalist style.

▲ This mummy has gold -plated masks. Organizer Conference

According to statistics from British archeologist Pitter, only one or two of the mummy unearthed per 100 is portrait. They are used to fix the coffin of mummy, showing the appearance of the owner of the tomb. According to the current technologies such as CT imaging, the portrait is not pursuing the truth. For example, the owner of a tomb was originally fat. Handsome guy.

Mummy's fusion culture

This exhibition not only shows the ancient Egypt in the impression, but also puts ancient Egypt in the history of the world's development: the exhibition cabinets are set up in different periods of the ancient cultural society in different periods, the portraits, masks, pottery, and pottery of the Greeks in different periods. Tibetan, jewelry, glass container, grass paper files, etc.

It turned out that the exchanges between Europe and Africa began as early as the 7th century BC. Around the 3rd century BC, the Macedonian Empire ruled Egypt, and Egypt had a period of "Greece-Rome", showing a strong Greek-Roman god. The worship of the goddess Ishis of Egypt was swept through the Roman Empire. In the exhibition, an Eshis half -body figure showed the style of ancient Greece; a light blue -green glass bottle was very eye -catching. It was the most distinctive product of Egypt in the Roman period. one. The audience will also see a piece of Greek grass paper recording part of the will of Istalion's son Prove. The will is one of the most common file types of "surviving" in ancient Egypt. It is a legal document that stipulates that property transferred from one person to another. A pen box with reed pen is equivalent to the stationery box of the time. This type of pen box was a sign of people's literacy ability at that time, and it was also part of the pictographic text of the "scholars". The pen box used the Egyptian secular text to engrave the name and head street of the owner.

Throughout the exhibition, the audience seemed to have traveled through a thousand -year -old journey through thousands of years, immersed in the mysterious atmosphere of ancient Egyptian cultural culture and could not extricate themselves for a long time.

Shenzhen Evening News reporter Yang Hui

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