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 workshops are taking place for families and teens during the Easter Holidays. COMIC BOOK SLAM Date: 31 March | Time: 2-4pm [...]
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 objects from the museum for your own ideas. With Kel Winser. Just pop in! 020 7679 4138 | events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk Also [...]
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. When ruler of Egypt, Osiris was murdered and his body cut up and scattered across the land by his jealous brother [...]
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 monster, while in The Ring of Thoth the mummy is a sympathetic object of romance with the immortal Egyptian. Mummies, [...]
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 archaeologist Sophocles Sarcophagus is an absent minded professor. One of the most famous scenes is when Tintin and snowy walk past a line of coffins holding wrapped archaeologists who violated [...]
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 Egypt while he was King. After he was assassinated and dismembered by his brother Seth, she searched for her husband and found Osiris’ scattered parts and [...]
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, such as a sandstorm. He was very important in early Egypt until 2700 BC but then, though he is mentioned in texts, there are few visual representations of him [...]
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 moon. He later became worshipped as a sun god. Horus is the god of kingship and celestial [...]
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 artist . There’s been great ideas, characters and stories, particularly around Egyptian Supergods Horus and Set. You [...]
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