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Exhibition of ancient Egyptian civilization opens in Shanghai

An exhibition on ancient Egyptian civilization, which features 492 sets of 788 pieces of artifacts, opened in the Shanghai Museum on Wednesday. The exhibition will run 13 months.

The exhibition, entitled "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt," was jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Museum and the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt.

Ninety five percent of the artifacts on display are making their Asia debut.

The most anticipated exhibits include statues of Pharaohs, sets of sarcophaguses and mummy cases, painted wooden coffins, and animal mummies.

The displayed artifacts come from several major Egyptian museums and some of them are cultural relics newly unearthed in Egypt.

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