{"id":258628,"date":"2019-09-30T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=258628"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:51:35","slug":"brazil-natl-museum-reclaims-its-expertise-in-egyptology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-natl-museum-reclaims-its-expertise-in-egyptology\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Nat\u2019l Museum reclaims its expertise in Egyptology"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 For the seventh year on year, the Rio de Janeiro National Museum<\/a> is hosting its Egyptology Week<\/a>.\u00a0This year\u2019s event is marked by the efforts to keep the institution active despite the fire that razed it on September 2, 2018. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of showing that we\u2019re still working with Egyptology. Lots of people were saying Egyptology is over in Brazil. Egyptology is still going strong. We took a blow but kept going. We resisted,\u201d said Pedro Von Seehausen (pictured above<\/em>), one of the event\u2019s organizers, who\u2019s currently pursuing a PhD in Archaeology from the National Museum\/UFRJ.<\/p>\n

The week will run from this Monday (30) to October 4 at the auditorium of the Horto Bot\u00e2nico, a National Museum annex building in S\u00e3o Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o, Rio de Janeiro. Even though the venue is open to the public, this is the first time the press will be allowed in since the fire.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The heart-scarab amulet found in Sha Amun En Su’s sarcophagus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So far, over 300 Egypt-related items have been salvaged. \u201cWe still hold the biggest Egyptology collection in Brazil,\u201d said Von Seehausen. Eleven Egyptian items that survived the fire will be on display during the event.<\/p>\n

One of them is Sha Amun En Su\u2019s heart-scarab. \u201cThis might be one of the main pieces, because it has never been shown to the public before. It used to be a part [it was sitting inside the coffin], it was Sha Amun En Su\u2019s amulet. The sarcophagus had been closed for 2,700 years. We were aware of it [the scarab] thanks to a CAT scan. When the fire happened, we did research work so we could find the scarab alongside the eight other amulets,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

A virtual reality mummy<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the items in the collection was a 2,000-year-old mummy that had been purchased by (Brazilian emperor) Dom Pedro I. Known as the Roman Mummy, it was lost in the fire, but got recreated in virtual reality with a CAT scan. The mummy will be on show in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro Pure and Applied Mathematics Institute.<\/p>\n

For this event, the Museum relied on financial support from Capes (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) to bring in researchers from Brazil, France and Argentina. \u201cThis is very special to me. I\u2019ve been a student at the Museum since 2012. It\u2019s where I graduated and learned all of the museology concepts. This has always been a very important event to me. We have welcomed several very important communities. It\u2019s a form of resistance,\u201d said Von Seehausen.<\/p>\n

Egyptology Week will also include lectures and debates. Researchers slated to speak include Brazilians and Argentinians from various institutions; Dr. Ivan Guermeur, of Paris\u2019 \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes; and Isabelle R\u00e9gen, PhD, also from France, who\u2019s in charge of excavating one of the biggest tombs in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

National Museum Egyptology Week
\n<\/em>Sep 30-Oct 4 starting 8:30am
\nNational Museum, Horto Bot\u00e2nico Auditorium\u2013 S\u00e3o Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o \u2013 Rio de Janeiro
\nProgram & registration: https:\/\/seshat.museunacional.ufrj.br\/semna\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tomaz Silva\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n
Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Egyptology Week begins this Monday, featuring items salvaged from the fire that tore down the venue in 2018. \u2018Egyptology is still going strong. We took a blow but kept going. We resisted,\u2019 said Pedro Von Seehausen, one of the organizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":258593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5007,11614,11616,11615,11617,11609],"class_list":{"0":"post-258628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-egyptology","9":"tag-egyptology-week","10":"tag-heart-scarab","11":"tag-national-museuem","12":"tag-sha-amun-en-su-en","13":"tag-sha-amun-en-su"},"wps_subtitle":"The Egyptology Week begins this Monday, featuring items salvaged from the fire that tore down the venue in 2018. \u2018Egyptology is still going strong. We took a blow but kept going. We resisted,\u2019 said Pedro Von Seehausen, one of the organizers.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}