Japan falls under pharaohs' spell

Tutankhamen reaches Japan for the first time in 46 years this week on the last leg of a ten stop tour that began in Switzerland in 2004 and passed through Germany, France, England and several US states.

During the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, Japan celebrated the arrival of the collection and the 150th anniversary of the first Samurai delegation to Egypt. 

Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim described the exhibition as an expression the amity between Egypt and Japan, and a message that Egypt is safe and open for business. 

Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition contains 122 objects, 50 of which belong to the Tutankhamen collection. The objects on show relate to one of the most interesting and perplexing eras of ancient Egyptian history – the period before and during Tutankhamen's reign 

The objects will remain in Osaka for six months before returning to the Egyptian museum in Tahrir Square. 

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Met to return Tutankhamen's bronze dog, sphinx

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has agreed to repatriate a collection of ancient Egyptian objects including a lapis-lazuli sphinx that once adorned a bracelet worn by King Tutankhamen, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities  said.

Curators at the museum have established that all 19 antiquities, which also include a three-quarter-inch-high bronze dog, come from the tomb of the boy-pharaoh, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. They are among a number of objects that were acquired by the Met after the deaths of Carter and Lord Carnarvon, the English earl who sponsored the expedition.

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Features Include: Tutankhamen’s Family Ties Full of Knots by Dennis Forbes; So, What’s Become of the Golden Cartouche? by Dennis Forbes; The King Is Dead. How Long Lived the King? by Dylan Bickerstaffe; KV63: 2020 Season by Otto Schaden; “Mysterious Tomb 63” & the Art of Susan Osgood by Michael Höveler-Müller & Dancia Fendel; The “Other” Unfinished Obelisk by Michael R. Jenkins; Egypt at Zagreb by Lucy Gordan-Rastelli; Giant of Egyptology No. 24: Edward R. Ayrton; The Sacred Cats of Bastet by Jody Neal.

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