Royal Ontario Museum’s newest exhibit in Toronto is attempting to show visitors how six “average” mummies are a lot like their modern counterparts — aside from the thousands of years of being entombed following a fascinating burial rite.And it’s attempting to do so amid a pandemic.When it opens to the public on Saturday, it will be the first time the ROM has held an exhibition on ancient Egypt in more than a decade.
The mummies, three females and three males, are on loan from the British Museum in London.Each time an exhibition is hosted, senior curator Krzysztof Grzymski said the museum tries to focus on a different theme.“This time it’s about both daily life in ancient Egypt, but it’s also about the use of modern techniques to study, in a.