As its title proposes, To Live Forever explores the age-old wonders of immortality and life after dying. For ancient Egyptians, death was an foe that could be overcome through a piece of ingenuity and certain training. If their drives were successful and the gods were appeased, the end of life on ground was merely a portal to another beginning.

For its first-ever special exposition of Egyptian antiquities, the Chrysler has drawn from the wide holdings of the Brooklyn Museum, renowned as one of the bitterest collections of such art in the world. More than 120 special objects-including mummies, coffins, sarcophagi, statuary, jewellery, and funerary shrouds-trace the Egyptians’ all-consuming drives to outfit their tombs to please the gods, subdue death, and let them to “live forever” in the afterlife. The Chrysler is amazing to be the only Mid-Atlantic venue for this important display of Egyptian artifacts concerned to their seeking to achieve eternal life.

Those gods (Osirus, Horus, Seth, Re, Isis) play a part in the exhibition’s introduction on the spiritual beliefs of ancient Egypt. Their legendary tales open amid a rich display of golden coffins, funerary statues, papyri, stone reliefs, amulets, and shabty servant statuettes working to help mere mortals set for immortality.

As To Live Always moves through the practical process of setting up for death, the focus shifts to mummification, funerals, and tombs. The exhibition boasts the actual silk-shrouded mummy of a man named Demetrios, as well as the huge variety of the daily and extra-special points the timeless traveller would need to survive in eternity. The exhibition presents the realities faced by rich and poor likewise in creating or appropriating such expensive materials to fit their temples or tombs as eternal resting sites.

An exhibition of special peculiarity and quality, To Live Forever provides a once-in-a-generation chance to experience the full range and wonder of the best of ancient Egyptian art, right here in Hampton Roads.