Righto, I’ve just been told that today’s #MuseumsUnlocked is focusing on Smaller London Museums so here follows a wee thread on @Petrie
1st up: when considering Ancient Egypt most people don’t consider the Palaeolithic, but here’s some of the collection’s gorgeous handaxes

(2) Here’s some more beautiful arrowheads, handaxes and blades, all on display, for free @PetrieMuseEgypt
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(3) Here we have some lovely pottery. To the left (brown/black) Badarian, centre (with ostriches, or flamingos?) Naqada and on the right, this little lovely is from Meydum. The first 2 date to the Neolithic, not sure on dates for the last pot #MuseumsUnlocked @PetrieMuseEgypt

(4) These next images all concern Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. A female ruler who was successful in battle, expansion of the empire, and trade.
This wee jar (which I was privileged to examine at close quarters) contains cedar resin c. 3.5KYA, recovered from...

(5) Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank, opposite Karnak Temple.
The cartouche contains the name of the female ruler. The resin retains a very faint scent of myrrh (apologies for mistake in previous tweet-myrrh, not cedar)
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(6) These images of Shabti (miniature figures who accompanied the deceased into the afterlife to perform tasks) were photographed during the assembling of the @PetrieMuseEgypt wonderful Shabti display which can still be seen in the Pottery Gallery, for free
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(7) here are two beautiful depictions of Akhenaten, the 18th Dynasty pharaoh, also known as the Heretic, for turning away from pantheism to focus solely on the Aten.
Nefertiti was his Great Wife and he’s most probably the father of Tutankhamen @PetrieMuseEgypt
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(8) This flask bears the cartouches of Ramses the Great and his Great Queen, Nefertari (c.3,200 years old).
It is so reminiscent of later Pilgrim flasks + it led me down yet another research rabbit hole, yikes!
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(9) Thank you for joining me on this whistlestop tour of @PetrieMuseEgypt today.
It’s a really great museum, spanning Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology from the Palaeolithic through to the Medieval, and its 80K objects are accessible virtually too
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