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Making Comics at the Petrie Museum
We’ve been inviting young people in to the museum to create their own comics based on Ancient Egypt. This has been funded by the John Lyon’s Charity and led by Kel Winser, an art teacher and comic book...
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Horus – Supergod
Horus is one of the oldest Egyptian deities and he was originally known as ‘Horus, lord of the Sky’. Mythologically the god is known as a celestial falcon whose right eye was the sun and left eye the...
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Seth – Supergod
A rare image of Seth from the Petrie Museum. The god Seth (or Set) represents the forces of disturbance and confusion. Seth is associated with the desert and was feared as bringing famine and chaos,...
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Isis – Supergod
Isis in the Petrie Museum Isis became Egypt’s most important goddess. She was very powerful and became more and more popular as time passed. Isis was the sister-wife of Osiris and assisted him rule...
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Archaeologists: Good or Greedy
An archaeologist by Japeth Archaeologists have a mixed reputation in comics. Sometimes they are Indiana Jones style heroes or greedy grasping villains. In Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh, the...
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Mummies: Monsters or Misunderstood
One of the archetypal monsters of Gothic fiction and film is ‘the mummy’. Arthur Conan-Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote two stories about mummies in the 1890s. Lot 249 depicts a mummy as a...
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Osiris: Supergod
Osiris is one of the most important deities of Ancient Egypt and is particularly identified with resurrection and the afterlife. He is ruler of the underworld, a resurrected god and judge of the dead....
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Supergods Comic Book Slam and QR Exhibition
COMIC BOOK SLAM 3 December 2-4pm Petrie Museum Free Create your own comic panel and characters in 2 hours in this comic book slam at the Petrie Museum. Explore comics using Egypt as inspiration and...
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Supergods Return to the Petrie Museum: New Comic Book Events
After a full Petrie Museum audience last Thursday in rapt attention to Dr Paul Harrison talking about comics and their use of Ancient Egypt – particularly Hawkman and hero comics – new comic book...
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