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Exhibition: 'Egyiptian Renaissance', Fine Arts Museum |
 "Now showing until 9 November in Budapest. The culture of Pharaonic Egypt was characterised throughout by a reverence for the past living on in myths and history, the preservation of the glorious achievements of the past, as well as the conscious and selective use of these achievements.A kind of “renaissance” attitude is thus deeply rooted in the 3,000-year-long history of ancient Egypt. The title of the exhibition denotes a brief yet all the more exciting period of the middle of the first millennium B.C. (7th-6th century B.C./25th and 26th dynasties), which was a new – and the last – golden age that followed some 400 years of political and economic hardship after the end of the New Kingdom.
Research dates the beginning of this new era from the rule of the 25th Dynasty, originating from Nubia (modern day Sudan, the territory of ancient Kush), which conquered and united Egypt at the end of the 8th century B.C., and made the ancient capital Memphis its seat.
The power of the pharaohs in this era was clearly legitimised by their identification with the past, thus increasingly archaising trends can be seen in many areas of culture at this time.
Tickets are available for advance purchase through the Jegymester online shop."
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17.10.2008
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