Leslie Peacock offers a preview:

It’s with relief and pleasure that I can report that you won’t regret for a minute the $22 you spend to see “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt.” The Arkansas Arts Center’s biggest show ever — in expense, prestige and sheer number of objects — opens Friday, Sept. 25.

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The strength of the show lies not in any one astonishing or celebrated object, like Tut’s gold slippers, nor in an elaborate display a la the Wonders series of exhibits of the previous decade in the Memphis Pyramid. Instead, it is the preponderance of the many fascinating and beautiful things here, their provenance in the halls of the dead, their fine presentation and — perhaps most importantly — their newness to an Arkansas audience.

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