Swansea's museum of Egyptian antiquities, the Egypt Centre, is set to welcome an additional 700 rare ancient artefacts to its collection - and some are 3,000 years old. The Centre, based in the Taliesin building on Swansea University's Singleton Campus, will be the new home for hundreds of items on loan from Harrogate Museums for the next three years - including a 2,800-year-old coffin, a one-of-its-kind Anubis mask and a large collection of pottery and small Egyptian figurines.
And as well as going on display, the items will be "properly researched and documented" for the first time by experts and students from the University's Department of Egyptology.
The loan came about after Egypt Centre volunteer and former Swansea University graduate Sam Powell visited Harrogate Museum as part of her PhD research on wooden tomb figures. While discussing the Egypt Centre collection, the curators at Harrogate saw an opportunity for their collection to undergo research by experts in Swansea. You can get the biggest Swansea news stories straight to your inbox with our newsletter, and for more stories about Swansea University, go here.
