Economizing Your Tomb

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Introduction: To Live Forever
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Find out more about To Live Forever.

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The Official Exhibition Trailer!
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What would you bring to your afterlife?
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If you lived forever what would you take with you? It is a complicated question with many individual answers. Check out what folks from Indianapolis can't live (or die) without.

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More about the exhibition website
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The Brooklyn Museum and Indianapolis Museum of Art worked closely together on organizing this website. Learn more...

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Mummy Mask of a Man
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From Egypt. Roman Period, early 1st century A.D. Stucco, gilded and painted, 20 1/4 x 13 x 7 7/8 in. Brooklyn Museum Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 72.57

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Panel from the Coffin of a Woman
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From Asyut, Egypt. Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 11 to early Dynasty 12, about 2008-1875 B.C. Wood, pigment, 17 1/2 x 71 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Brooklyn Museum Charles Edwin Wilbour, 1995.112

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The IMA visits the Brooklyn Museum
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Blog posts from Edward Bleiberg
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Check out Brooklyn Museum's blog posts by Edward Bleiberg about Egyptian Art.

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To Live Forever explores the ancient Egyptian belief that death was an enemy that could be beaten through proper preparation. Hear Edward Bleiberg, Brooklyn's curator of Egyptian Art, discuss how Egyptian commoners mimicked the lavish practices of the Pharaohs in more thrifty ways, and see proof of this technique in objects from the Brooklyn Museum's extensive, world-renowned collection.

Wonderful! I had never thought of what middle-class Egyptians' tombs might be like. Thank you.

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00:00:05 The exhibition To Live Forever looks at the kinds of choices people made, people who were not kings and queens or princes,

00:00:16 people who had to plan their funeral on a budget. The materials that the Egyptians used for the objects that they put into their tombs

00:00:26 often will reflect the economic status of the person. If you were the king, it was possible to have

00:00:35 many, many objects made of gold, but other people were forced to make choices.

00:00:42 Middle class people certainly could not afford to have a coffin that was gilded but they could afford yellow paint,

00:00:50 and so they would paint their coffins yellow in imitation of the gold coffins that were available to kings.