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Hilary Wilson on…The next best thing
Hilary Wilson explores the preservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage through replicas – the next best thing to visiting the monuments themselves.
Replicas of Egyptian temples and tombs offered a more immersive or emotional experience than contemporary museum exhibits…
An outstanding exhibit at the newly opened GEM is a rendition of the Beni Hasan tomb chapel of Khnumhotep II. With vivid scenes of everyday life digitally recreated and animated, this is the latest example in a long tradition of 3-D replicas of Egyptian monuments.
A 3-D replica of the Beni Hasan tomb chapel of Khnumhotep II, which has recently opened at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo. Image: Lucia Gahlin
KV17 Sety I
In 1821, Giovanni Belzoni’s London exhibition of Sety I’s tomb (KV17), which he had discovered four years earlier, drew huge crowd
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