Four years after hosting the exhibition “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,” the de Young Museum in San Francisco opened the “Treasures of the Pharaohs” exhibition on Saturday. The exhibition features 130 artifacts on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in Cairo and the Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art, including artifacts displayed for the first time in North America.

The exhibition covers nearly 3,000 years of Egyptian history, beginning with the unification of Egypt around 3100 BC and ending with Egypt coming under Roman rule in 30 BC.

The displayed artifacts are divided into six sections covering royal authority, the pharaoh’s court, religious beliefs, daily life, discoveries from the “Golden City,” and rituals related to death and the afterlife.

The collection includes statues made of granite and limestone, gold jewelry, ceramic vessels, funerary furniture, as well as tools and clay molds used in ancient workshops.

Among the artifacts displayed is the “Triad of Menkaure” statue from the Old Kingdom, the necklace of Queen Ahhotep associated with military rewards and bravery, the golden collar of King Psusennes I, and a statue of Sennefer, his wife Senetnay, and their daughter carved from highly durable stone.

The exhibition also includes Princess Sitamun’s gilded wooden chair dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III. In the section dedicated to the afterlife, visitors can see artifacts from royal tombs discovered in Tanis, including a golden funerary mask, the mummy cover of Psusennes I, and a gold and glass chest necklace.

The exhibition also displays the inner coffin lid of Ankh-ef-en-Mut and the outer anthropoid coffin of Akhenaten’s grandmother.

A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to 20 artifacts discovered in the “Golden City,” which was found in 2021 on the western bank of Luxor and dates back to the 14th century BC.

The exhibition is accompanied by an expanded 388-page guide containing around 250 images, including photographs of the artifacts taken by Italian photographer Massimo Listri.

The exhibition is scheduled to move to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, where it will run from March 14 to September 19, 2027.