Ancient Egypt June listings

This article is from Ancient Egypt issue 149

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TOMB OF THE PHARAOHS

This new 3D, immersive, and interactive experience of ancient Egypt recreates scenes of royal tombs including those of Ramesses IV, Sety I, Tutankhamun, and Nefertari, featuring more than 300 museum-grade replicas.

CAIRNS AQUARIUM ANNEX, 122B Lake Street, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia, http://www.tombofthepharaohs.com.au, Until 31 December 2026

The gilded shabti of Ptahmes, part of the *Tomb of the Pharaohs* immersive exhibition in Cairns, Australia. Image: Tomb of the Pharaohs

THE POWER OF WORDS: DOMINATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN ANCIENT EGYPT

A special exhibition of papyri, highlighting the multiple languages spoken in Egypt in antiquity, from Egyptian and Greek to Coptic and Arabic, reveals the dynamic exchange between these linguistic and cultural groups.

ÖSTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK PAPYRUS MUSEUM, Josefsplatz 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria, http://www.onb.ac.at, Until 3 May 2026

One of the papyri that features in *The Power of Words: domination and cultural diversity in ancient Egypt* in Vienna. Image: Austrian National Library

ON PATHS UNTRODDEN: GEORG SCHWEINFURTH AND HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE COLLECTIONS OF THE STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN

The Ägyptische Museum und Papyrussammlung organised this special exhibition to mark the centenary of the death of Georg Schweinfurth – renowned explorer, botanist, and pioneer of Egyptology. The displays include stone tools, flower and plant wreaths, and textiles.

NEUES MUSEUM, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany, http://www.smb.museum, Until 8 February 2026

Georg Schweinfurth, a pioneer of Egyptology whose work is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Neues Museum Berlin. Image: © Berlin State Library, Manuscript Department

UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT EGYPT FROM BROOKLYN MUSEUM

This selection of 150 masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient Egyptian collection includes sculpture, coffins, jewellery, pottery, papyri, and human and cat mummies.

HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL ART MUSEUM, 2-22 Kaminoboricho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, 730-0014, Japan, https://egypt-brooklyn.exhibit.jp/en, 20 September-30 November 2025

The head of an Old Kingdom pharaoh from the Brooklyn Museum, part of the touring exhibition heading to the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum. Image: Robert B Partridge (RBP)

TUTANKHAMUN: HIS TOMB AND HIS TREASURES

The touring exhibition Tutankhamun shows more than 1,000 replicas of objects found in the pharaoh’s tomb, giving visitors the opportunity to experience it exactly as it was found.

BILTMORE AMHERST AT DEERPARK, One Lodge Street, Asheville, North Carolina, NC 28803, USA, http://www.biltmore.com, Until 4 January 2026

A replica of Tutankhamun’s gold inner coffin, part of the *Tutankhamun: his tomb and his treasures* exhibition. Image: RBP

SOULFUL CREATURES: ANIMAL MUMMIES IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Focusing on the mummification of animals, Soulful Creatures gathers 30 mummies from the Brooklyn Museum collections, and 69 ancient Egyptian artefacts related to their ritual use. The displays offer dynamic presentations of the origins, techniques, and rituals of this practice, and of recent scientific tests that have uncovered key information about the methods used to create animal mummies.

WALTERS ART MUSEUM, 600 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD21201, USA, http://www.thewalters.org, 27 September 2025-11 January 2026