Parfums d'Egypte: Du Pays de Pount aux rives du Nil. Océanie by upsetting our bearings

by upsetting our bearings

these are the messages conveyed by the influential voice of Genevan ethnologist René Fuerst

it became the most popular entertainment venue at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition: a place where “people went wild with excitement

which has continued to be fueled by remarkable discoveries

Parfums d'Egypte: Du Pays de Pount aux rives du Nil. Océanie by upsetting our bearingsFocusing on the perfumes of Egypt, this exhibition presents some 80 objects preserved at the Egyptian Museums of Cairo, Coptic and Islamic Art, which bear witness to the history of perfumed oils, ointments and incense from the Pharaonic era to the Greco Roman, Coptic and Arab periods. Trade between Egypt and its neighbors, notably the land of Punt, has provided resins essential for the production of incense and perfume since the Old Kingdom. Other raw