The exhibition will feature 150 objects, including the 4,500-year-old Palermo Stone, a life-size statue of Ramses II and a mummy from the Roman age. The exhibition was shown in Ljubljana in the first half of the year and has been expanded for display in Budapest.
"Two-thirds of the 150 objects on display arrived from abroad, including such world-famous museums as the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna and collections in Florence, Rome and Zagreb, with the remaining 50 works on loan by Hungarian institutions," Laszlo Baan said.
Francesco Tiradritti, the exhibition's foreign curator, who is also director of the Italian Archaeological Museum in Cairo, said the presentation of Pharaonic Renaissance in Budapest opens new horizons in Egypt research. "Bringing the Stone of Palermo to the exhibition is a great success, almost as if the Mona Lisa had been brought to Budapest," he added.
The Palermo Stone is an ancient Egyptian stela of black basalt engraved toward the end of the 5th dynasty (twenty-fifth century BC). It is probably the earliest Egyptian historical text.
