Exhibition “Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs” opens in Paris

An exhibition with 181 objects from the Kingdom of Pharaoh Ramses II opens this Friday at La Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris.

Among the many objects on show till September sixth is the restored funerary masks of Egyptian King Amenemope.

“It is a fully extraordinary object, extraordinarily fragile, extraordinarily properly restored, as a result of initially this masks was sitting on a wood core that disappeared. So we needed to rebuild the assist with out damaging the gold leaf. After which it is a fully extraordinary object. It is even exhausting to consider that this object is definitely right here”, stated curator Dominique Farout.

The gathering is among the most spectacular shows of historical Egyptian tradition ever exhibited in France, illustrating the pharaonic grandeur of Ramses II, with spectacular and immersive installations.

“You already know, particularly these days, we’re in a world that’s all the time transferring. And this looks like… someway like stability, immutability. I do not know… like tranquillity. It is stunning. And it is hundreds of years outdated. Effectively, I need to confess, I am getting chills though I ought to be used to it!”, beamed the curator.

A few of the objects are over three thousand years outdated and are being exhibited for the primary time exterior Egypt.

“So we’ve right here some pretty notable examples of the jewelry that might be discovered within the Center Kingdom, in different phrases within the classical interval of historical Egypt. It is round 2000 BC and it is the golden age of this sort of jewelry known as cloisonné. Which means that you’ve an entire community of gold leaves during which gems are included. So we’ve, for instance, turquoise, lapis lazuli, amethyst, so stones that have been thought of by the Egyptians to be eminently valuable”, stated Previous Egypt knowledgeable Bénédicte Lhoyer.

In 2019, an exhibition devoted to Tutankhamun attracted greater than 1.4 million guests.