{"id":1629,"date":"2018-06-30T05:25:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2018-07-05T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:45:59","slug":"dr-sara-orel-leads-tour-of-egyptian-exhibit-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/2018\/06\/30\/dr-sara-orel-leads-tour-of-egyptian-exhibit-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sara Orel Leads Tour of Egyptian Exhibit in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art History professor Sara Orel, whose speciality is ancient Egypt (she has her Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology), led a June 10th tour of the Sunken Cities exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0for members of Truman State University’s Alumni Association.\u00a0 The show includes objects from underwater excavations of the lost cities of\u00a0Thonis-Heracleion<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Canopus<\/a>, off the northern coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean sea.\u00a0 In addition there are several pieces on loan from the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt, and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.\u00a0 Thirty former (and current) Truman students and their friends and family got to see the objects which included beautiful jewelry and statues, including three colossal statues of granite set up in the lobby of the museum.\u00a0 Art History graduate Krista Garcia took several pictures and was willing to let us use them here.<\/p>\n

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Art History professor Sara Orel, whose speciality is ancient Egypt (she has her Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology), led a June 10th tour of the Sunken Cities exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum\u00a0for members of Truman State University’s Alumni Association.\u00a0 The show includes objects from underwater excavations of the lost cities of\u00a0Thonis-Heracleion\u00a0and\u00a0Canopus, off the northern…Read more Dr. Sara Orel Leads Tour of Egyptian Exhibit in St. Louis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8023,22008,25205,22453,1],"tags":[8023,44674,44793],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-art-history","category-faculty","category-news-and-events","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-art-history","tag-st-louis-art-museum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}