Treasures of the Pharaohs

This landmark exhibition, featuring 130 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum, explores three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history through an array of dazzling royal treasures and objects illuminating daily life, religion, bureaucracy, and burial practices. The exhibition paints an unparalleled picture of the lives of the pharaohs, from the grandeur surrounding their kingship, deity worship, and elaborate preparations for the afterlife to the strict hierarchies and day-to-day routines of the people around them—a highly organized bureaucracy critical to maintai…