Exhibition Preview: Pharaoh: King of Egypt, Birmingham Museum and art Gallery, Birmingham, until October 14 2012

The latest leg of the British Museum’s big touring show has enjoyed a bit of an Egyptian slugfest with the imperious existing collection in Birmingham’s flagship museum, pitting the ritualism of burial proceeds against carved temple stones, a wooden bow once donned by a royal troop commander, glittering gold and a water-clock once decorated for the delectation of a Greek king on the throne of Egypt.

Monumental statues, decorative inlays from a Pharaoh’s palace and clay tablet letters to allies of Egypt are also among the more unusual items, more than 130 of which come from the London institution.

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