China - Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province in southwestern China, has received about 700,000 visitors during the Jinsha Sun Festival that concluded last week. As part of the festival, an exhibition named "Ancient Egypt: World of Pharaohs and Gods", was organized in cooperation with Canada's Royal Ontario Museum.
The exhibition selected 155 sets of ancient Egyptian cultural relics originally housed at the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada. These include mummies, The Book of the Dead, Cleopatra VII statue, bronze statues and more. The exhibition consists of three parts: "Colorful life", "The immortal Pharaohs", and "the guardian of the gods".
The ancient Egyptian culture on the one hand, and the ancient Shu (Chengdu) culture on the other, are two famous ancient civilizations separated indeed by a huge distance of time and space, however they seem to have a striking resemblance as they share the worship of the sun, the head of the Jinsha Site Museum said.
