Life was loved so much in the culture of Pharaonic Egypt that its rulers wanted to live forever. For millennia, generation after generation, the Egyptians spared no effort to guarantee eternity: tombs, myths, rites, mummies, tomb goods.
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations, the exhibition Terracotta Warriors and Ancient China: Heritage from the Qin and Han Dynasty recently opened at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo, the last leg of its nearly year-long tour in Japan.
A visitor looks at an exhibit at the media preview of the exhibition "Terracotta Warriors and Ancient China: Heritage from the Qin and Han Dynasty" at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 21, 2022.