Shanghai "Top of the Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition"

The exhibition will be held from July 19, 2024 to August 17, 2025 at the People's Square Museum of the Shanghai Museum.

"Top of the Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" is the world's largest and Asia's highest-level exhibition of ancient Egyptian cultural relics abroad. It is also the first time that a Chinese official museum has cooperated with the Egyptian government to fully reveal the ancient Egyptian civilization and its latest archaeological discoveries. The exhibition is jointly organized by the Shanghai Museum and the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, and jointly guided by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt.

The exhibition brings together 492 groups of 788 precious cultural relics from different periods of ancient Egyptian civilization, including statues of pharaohs such as Tutankhamun, Amenemhat III and Ramses II, a set of mummy coffins, queen gold ornaments, and newly discovered painted wooden coffins, animal mummies and statues in the Saqqara area. It strives to reveal the appearance of ancient Egyptian civilization to the audience and announce the latest archaeological discoveries and research results of ancient Egypt.