Quest for Immortality

Visited an exhibition @ National Museum of Singapore -> Quest for Immortality - The World of Ancient Egypt

To my surprise, there were quite a number of visitors!!! Didn’t know that many like to frequent museum. Ha. So it is so unlikely that it will be in my agenda.

Ancient Egypt has always been a myth to me and little that I know that it was eventually under Rome empire! It all started with the outer court where we see lots of incomplete statues. As what JC said, why are they not showing us the actual picture so that we can have a better appreciation on the actual image?! *Nod nod* I agree. Ha.

According to the lady tour guide, Egyptians like to associate themselves with God and animal, this is different from Asian. They believe that the King exhibit certain attribute of some animal like falcon and lion. Horus is some sort of God with a falcon head. And guess what, he is the one who will be waiting for you at the judgement day, assessing if your heart either heavier/lighter than a feather on the weighing scale.

I learn something new. The scarab. It is some kind of bug, 圣虫 which is placed on top the ‘heart’ of the corpse. The purpose is to protect the heart so that it can speak the right thing when it comes to Horus on judgement day. How interesting!

The drawing & painting on coffin itself is also interesting. You know what, the drawing is actually based on decease’s ideal face. It’s like how this person want to look like when they are in another world. Menu are inscribed in those plate and you need magic to turn those items into food for the decease. Also, Egyptian emphasis alot on their ritual and proper burial. The mummification process is quite interesting too. Those important body parts are placed inside 4 special jars, to be buried together with the mummy.


Do you know why is it called Mummy? It’s actually originated from Iran and because when they first discovered the mummy, it is black in color and they thought it is tar. In Iranian language, Mummy is the word for tar :)

One more interesting fact about the rites. Some figurines are buried together with the mummy. The number of figurines who served as servants can be up to 401. Why 401? 365 servants for each day, and 36 overseers for each group of ten servants. Ha.

The lady guide was saying how blessed is the servant since they only need to work one day each year. Hehe... well, not many Egyptian can afford that much of money for rituals et others.

I would say it definitely worth the money and time :) http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/nms/nms_html/nms_content_6c.asp?content_template=4&content_id=23&tab_id=23&cine_id=2360&fest_id=0


Oya, there’re other exhibition at the upper level. The showcase of photo shoot on Singapore landscape are quite good also. I am not a good photographers but i am really wonder how they manage to capture such moment in artistic way!

The paper bag exhibition brings you back to the 80s where most shops like CK Tang, Robinson has their own kind of style paper bag,. How time flies and how technology has evolved, we are into the ‘plastic’ era!! Gone are the days of paper bags. Kekek...

Ok, it’s educational and enriching :)

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Currently it is still N-3. When will it become N-4 uh?