Article: A 20th century time machine. (British Museum's exhibition of Egyptian art)

An exhibition at the British Museum blends the old and the new with some startling results.

In hundreds of central London locations, including scores of underground stations across the city, a striking poster advertises an exhibition, Time Machine - Ancient Egypt and Contemporary Art - currently being staged at The British Museum. The poster depicts a spectacular golden coloured sand sculpture, snaking across the floor of the British Museum's Egyptian Sculpture Gallery towards the head and torso of a centuries old statue excavated in Upper Egypt decades ago. Don't bother to look for the sand sculpture if you visit the exhibition - it isn't there. But, as James Putnam ...

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