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Cobras & knots of Isis for cataloguing @World_Museum storerooms 🐍 🎗
Nice start to the week getting an invite to #BeforeEgypt exhibition @VictoriaGallery which opens on 11 May & features some never before displayed items from @World_Museum collections https://t.co/7zq0MFcfX0
Crocodiles of all shapes and sizes to be found in the Ancient Egypt gallery @World_Museum and on our online catalogue
https://t.co/d1talx7VE0
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 @mfaboston https://t.co/9qeKkIfpV5
A bull, a cat, a lizard must have moved from shelf d to e by themselves or I updated the wrong location in 2014 #museumdocumentation
Dead cats - a staple of @LivAncWorlds visits to @World_Museum 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
An abundance of poorly preserved bronze votives deposited at Naukratis & excavated by @TheEES & donated @World_Museum in 1886 part of major @britishmuseum study https://t.co/Aa0xKzRXQG
MA Egyptology Students fron @LivAncWorlds given a group of material with different collecting histories - Joseph Mayer, @TheEES Florence Nightingale - to consider how all have provenance but different stories we can tell in exhibitions @World_Museum
Legend of St Eustace (painted about 1480) patron saint of firefighters and also of anyone facing adversity
In 1840s goldsmith & major Victorian antiquary Joseph Mayer joined the campaign to establish a public museum in Liverpool - @World_Museum - 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 @BrewDog