Some 7,735 visitors a day (1.4 million overall) caught the blockbuster at the Grande Halle de la Villette, which featured everything from golden pharaonic flip flops to shabtis (funerary figurines ...

Installation view: Making Egypt, Young V&A, 2025. Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photo: David Parry Zahed Tajeddin, Nu Shabtis, 2015, on view as part of Making Egypt, Young V&A, 2025.

Soon after, items such as ancient shabtis—small statues often found in Egyptian tombs—were discovered for sale on the black market, he says. “We are waiting for the liberation of the museum ...

The education team from Derby Museum has visited Bemrose School twice to speak to the pupils about the museum's collections, notably two small funeral ornaments called shabtis, that were ...

Not feeling like doing it, Tut brings his shabtis - wooden tomb helping statues, to life to do the duty in his place. Tutenstein must stop the shabtis because they are becoming uncontrollable.

With supervision by museum staff, people of all ages can touch and hold objects such as ancient Egyptian shabtis or Japanese Noh theatre masks. Although the EAC catalog is not currently available for ...

Shabtis were considered luxury items and were as such extremely expensive despite their small size. Their history can be traced back to the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, around 1050 to 1650 BC ...

Shabtis came in varying shapes and sizes and can, when read, reveal vital clues about their owners. While they are often found inside tombs, the team said they had never come across such a vast ...

Before they wrap it up next week, we give you a reason to catch Mumbai’s only preserved mummy on display at CSMVS’s heritage wing A massive installation of the sleeping Buddha greets us as we ...