Kings of the Sun opens at National Museum in Prague












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            * Kings of the Sun opens at National Museum in Prague
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            Major exhibition highlights contribution of Czech Egyptologists

            This Monday saw the opening of Kings of the Sun [ URL "https://www.nm.cz/en/program/exhibi
            the-sun"] , a major exhibition at the National Museum in Prague highlighting - among the m
            display - extraordinary archaeological finds by Czech Egyptologists whose work spans decad

            1960s to the present. The unrivalled exhibition [ URL "https://cegu.ff.cuni.cz/en/2020/08/
            pharaohs-in-prague/"] features some 300 artefacts, some up to 5,000 years old. The Czech I
            Egyptology [ URL "https://cegu.ff.cuni.cz/en/"] of the Faculty of Arts at Charles Universi

            renowned for excavations and research at Abusir.
            Ahead of the opening, the head of the National Museum Michal Lukeš described Kings of the 

            the most important exhibitions in the institution’s history” as well as “a dream realised”
            true” for several generations of Czech Egyptologists, whose finds over the decades have be
            cultural and historic contribution. Just as remarkably, he added, the organisation and pre

            exhibition came together as planned “almost without changes” during one of the most diffic
            recent memory: the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
            The Sun Kings referenced in the title refers to Egyptian rules of the 5th dynasty (from ar

            BC) – a period when three major pyramids were built at Abusir along with minor pyramids an
            royal funerary complex, stretching many kilometres from outside Cairo to the Fayum Oasis w
            from the Czech Institute of Egyptology have been active over the years and continue their 

            The artefacts in the exhibition were loaned from Egyptian, German, and Czech museums. At t
            ceremony, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani, one of many top off
            attendance, explained that many of the items had never been shown outside Egypt before. No

            again, destined as they are to go on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
            The head of Czech archaeological research in Egypt and Charles University’s Vice-Rector fo
            Professor Miroslav Bárta, says the show delves not only into the history of items on view,

            explores the role of the builders of the pyramids and the larger story of Ancient Egypt it
            Visitors can look forward to the latest multimedia techniques to transport them to the age
            Kings; the show’s curator, Pavel Onderka, explained that if all of the multimedia presenta

            exhibit were lined up, the material would add up to a feature film.
            The exhibition will continue at the National Museum until February 7, 2021.