An exciting new exhibition, Creatures of the Nile, is now open at the University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum, which explores the fascinating position animals held in ancient Egyptian and Sudanese society and culture.
Creatures of the Nile features more than 250 objects, many of which have never been on public display. Highlights include one of the earliest known depictions of a domesticated dog, a sheet from the 3,500-year-old Book of the Dead and a bronze statue which entombed a mummified cat.