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Egyptologist • Lead Curator of Antiquities, National Museums Liverpool • All views my own
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Cobras & knots of Isis for cataloguing storerooms 🐍 🎗

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Nice start to the week getting an invite to exhibition which opens on 11 May & features some never before displayed items from collections https://t.co/7zq0MFcfX0

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Crocodiles of all shapes and sizes to be found in the Ancient Egypt gallery and on our online catalogue

https://t.co/d1talx7VE0

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1936 publication of Mereruka & family’s tomb included the most beautiful watercolours inc this unusual scene captioned with hieroglyphs as fattening hyena. More of Joseph Lindon Smith’s artwork on https://t.co/9qeKkIfpV5

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A bull, a cat, a lizard must have moved from shelf d to e by themselves or I updated the wrong location in 2014

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Dead cats - a staple of visits to storeroom - home to a dozen of the infamous 19.5 tonnes of cat mummies that escaped being ground to powder & spread on farmland as manure in 1890

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An abundance of poorly preserved bronze votives deposited at Naukratis & excavated by & donated in 1886 part of major study https://t.co/Aa0xKzRXQG

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MA Egyptology Students fron given a group of material with different collecting histories - Joseph Mayer, Florence Nightingale - to consider how all have provenance but different stories we can tell in exhibitions

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Legend of St Eustace (painted about 1480) patron saint of firefighters and also of anyone facing adversity

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In 1840s goldsmith & major Victorian antiquary Joseph Mayer joined the campaign to establish a public museum in Liverpool - - One reason was to keep unoccupied artisans out of pubs. He opened the Egyptian Museum at 8 Colquitt St in 1852 ...but it's now a

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