Egyptian tomb example
Report on chosen exhibits of Istanbul Archaeological Museum
In this report, I’m going to write about my expressions about Istanbul Archaeological Museum and then I will focus on Egyptian tomb find which is a section of Ancient Orient Museum.
Istanbul Archaeological Museum is the first museums of Turkey and also a great museum which have several collections from different cultures and periods. The museum firstly fascinates me from its courtyard, because I perceived the building of Archeological Museum, Tiled Kiosk Museum and Ancient
Orient Museum. They are all great work of architecture but especially Archaeological Museum affect me with its huge entrance. Tiled Kiosk Museum is also look great. When I started to walk inside the museum and looked for collection, I was disappointed from the way of collection placing in the museum. There were small corridors and neither we couldn’t look back the sculptures nor walk around the objects. I think that there should be enough places for each object, and the light illumination should be perfect. At least we should have to chance walk around the objects. Also, in some part of collections, there were just given the name and date of objects in my opinion there should be more detailed information.
In Ancient Orient Museum, there are different sections such as Pre-Islamic Arabian Art, Egypt
Collection, Mesopotamia Collection, Anatolia Collection etc. and actually I chose the Egyptian Collection before I went there, because I really wonder about their belief and the way of the embalmment. As we know, in Ancient Egypt they were believed that the soul was returning, after leaving the body with death. According to their belief afterlife could be possible with the existence of the body. Therefore, Egyptians were buried in monumental tombs such as pyramids, mastabas and rock-cut tombs or in ordinary graves dug into sand depending on their social positions. There were sarcophagus which are paid my attention too. In the part of
the
In this report, I’m going to write about my expressions about Istanbul Archaeological Museum and then I will focus on Egyptian tomb find which is a section of Ancient Orient Museum.
Istanbul Archaeological Museum is the first museums of Turkey and also a great museum which have several collections from different cultures and periods. The museum firstly fascinates me from its courtyard, because I perceived the building of Archeological Museum, Tiled Kiosk Museum and Ancient
Orient Museum. They are all great work of architecture but especially Archaeological Museum affect me with its huge entrance. Tiled Kiosk Museum is also look great. When I started to walk inside the museum and looked for collection, I was disappointed from the way of collection placing in the museum. There were small corridors and neither we couldn’t look back the sculptures nor walk around the objects. I think that there should be enough places for each object, and the light illumination should be perfect. At least we should have to chance walk around the objects. Also, in some part of collections, there were just given the name and date of objects in my opinion there should be more detailed information.
In Ancient Orient Museum, there are different sections such as Pre-Islamic Arabian Art, Egypt
Collection, Mesopotamia Collection, Anatolia Collection etc. and actually I chose the Egyptian Collection before I went there, because I really wonder about their belief and the way of the embalmment. As we know, in Ancient Egypt they were believed that the soul was returning, after leaving the body with death. According to their belief afterlife could be possible with the existence of the body. Therefore, Egyptians were buried in monumental tombs such as pyramids, mastabas and rock-cut tombs or in ordinary graves dug into sand depending on their social positions. There were sarcophagus which are paid my attention too. In the part of
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