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Exhibition Explores the Customs and Traditions Surrounding Life and Death of the Pharaohs

COUNTY DURHAM.- There could be a few cries of ‘I Want My Mummy’ at The Bowes Museum this summer, as visitors are taken on an exciting and absorbing trip through Ancient Egypt, in a super new exhibition aimed at families. Amazing Egyptians, which opened at the Barnard Castle treasure house on Saturday 2 July, explores the customs and traditions surrounding life and death in the land of the Pharaohs, through the use of key objects showing the processes involved in preparing a body for the afterlife. The exhibition, curated by Education Officer Amy Longstaff, has been set out so as to guide visitors on a journey as viewed through the eyes of an embalmer named Lukman, who tells about the Egyptians’ belief in more than one God, and the hoops they were convinced they must jump through in an effort to gain a first class ticket to immortality. “One of our aims was to show that even the greatest Pharaohs,