One Coffin: Two Eternities

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Coffins and Sarcophagi
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Explore the Ancient Egyptian world.

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19th dynasty in Ancient Egypt
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Discover the 19th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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Weretwahset
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Read about the treatment for the 18th Dynasty painted coffin for Weretwahset.

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20th dynasty in Ancient Egypt
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Discover the 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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Hieroglyphs
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What is a Hieroglyph?

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Mummy Coffin and Lid
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To Live Forever explores the ancient Egyptian belief that death was an enemy that could be beaten through proper preparation. Many objects used in ancient Egyptian burials had been recycled from a previous owner. Hear from the staff of the Brooklyn Museum, who worked hard to prepare the magnificent, twice-used coffin of Weretwahset, from the Brooklyn Museum's world-renowned collection, for display in To Live Forever.

It is really miraculous!

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00:00:06 My favorite object in this exhibition is the coffin that belonged actually to two different women. It was originally made for a woman named

00:00:15 Weretwahset at the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty. It was then used again at the end of the twentieth dynasty.

00:00:26 This is the hieroglyphs that were repainted for the second owner, and this is the painting for the original owner. So, you can see there is a difference in that,

00:00:35 these are in color and these are in black and white.

00:00:40 It has been in our storerooms since 1937 and we never had the opportunity, until now, to clean and restore it.

00:00:52 There are certain areas where there are losses that make the image less readable. We worked with Ed Bleiberg, the curator, a lot in terms of determining how far to take an

00:01:02 in-painting or compensation of these losses. What the public should be able to see is an object that's ancient, yet readable,

00:01:12 they can understand the aesthetics and not be fooled into thinking that there's something there that wasn't originally there.

00:01:19 Visitors will find that it's a really spectacular object.