![]() ![]() The controversy is similar to the one that arose in April over the casting of a Black actress, Adele James, to play Queen Cleopatra in a Netflix docudrama. The Dutch experts work with other international colleagues and, in view of this situation, have asked their partners at the Egyptian Museum in Turin to take over their concession. Now, they have received a message from the Egyptian Antiquities Service prohibiting them from continuing work on excavations at Saqqara, one of the largest royal necropolises in the world. ![]() As a result, it has banned the museum from further excavation at the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo.Įntitled Kemet, Egypt in hip-hop, jazz, soul & funk, the exhibition was already the subject of criticism on social media in April - some of it racist in nature - shortly after its opening. According to the Egyptian Antiquities Service, it is an Afrocentric approach and a case of cultural appropriation. Also on display is a music video in which actor Eddie Murphy portrays Pharaoh Ramses II, and a sculpture of rapper Nas as Tutankhamun. The exhibition shows Black artists embodying Egypt’s past rulers and is not based on the museum’s own creations, but on album covers and other cultural artifacts previously created by artists such as Beyoncé and Rihanna, who were inspired by Queen Nefertiti for several of their creations. Egyptian authorities have accused the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden of falsifying history in its exhibition on the influence of Ancient Egypt on the music of the African diaspora.
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