Pharaohs, Prisoners and Trees That Remembered
San Francisco: A City of Surprises -Anupama S Mani When the staircase has a story to tell. Heavy gold jewellery, intricate wood work, gilded masks, delicately painted anthropoid sarcophagi —all beautifully preserved and sitting right in front of my eyes — shocked me out of my poor knowledge zone about ancient Egypt. In the windy morning with the sun still uncertain about how it wanted to behave, as it often does in San Francisco, we headed to the de Young Museum to enjoy the Treasure of the Pharaohs , an exhibition of 130 exquisite works spanning 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, showing significance, aesthetic sense and values associ...