Dr. Yekaterina Barbash
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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In 1853, he decided to sell his collection off, and he came to New York and opened, I believe it was the first exhibition of ancient Egyptian art in the U.S., which was wildly popular.
Walt Whitman signed the guest book 20 times.
He loved it and became friends with Henry Abbott.
Nevertheless, the collection didn't sell.
And it ended up being acquired for the New York Historical Society.
And so the Book of the Dead of Ankh-Mare Ware came to the New York Historical Society until in 1937, the New York Historical Society decided to focus on the history of New York and first lent and then sold the entire collection to the Brooklyn Museum.
The Gilded Scroll was at the Brooklyn Museum, has been at the Brooklyn Museum since 1937.
But here's the problem.
Somebody, likely Dr. Henry Abbott himself or someone working for him, wanted to make sure that the scroll survived.
And so he first cut it into fragments and then glued it to a paper backing.
And
That certainly helped it stay intact.
And then he's rolled it back up into a scroll.
So the papyrus arrived to Brooklyn as a scroll.
And when I started working here 18 years ago, I saw a scroll with about six inches with a bit of gilding sticking out.
And that's all I knew about it until a few years ago when we applied for a grant, received the grant from the Bank of America to conserve it.
Oh, it was glorious.
It was glorious.
Because I had only seen about six inches of the scroll, I really did not have a good sense of how large it is, what it contained.
And so the first unrolling had to be done on the floor because the scroll was 21 feet long.
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