• This Wednesday opens in Marseille the exhibition

    Pharaons Superstars

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  • This exhibition questions the springs of fame for those who were the first stars in the history of humanity, even today.

Your dream is to have more followers than Nabilla and more gold records than Jul?

No need to follow these pseudo-online courses to achieve success.

Just visit the

Pharaohs Superstars

exhibition at the Mucem in Marseille, which opens this Wednesday, according to exhibition curator Frédéric Mougenot.

“We have all heard of Beyoncé or Elvis Presley, smiles the latter.

We have also all heard of Nefertiti or Tutankhamun.

However, they seem, a priori, less existing like that on paper.

Archaeological treasures show us that this is not the case and that they also make us dream.

20 Minutes gives

you

the five secrets of the pharaohs highlighted by this exhibition to gain "fame" like Ramses II.

A trace, you will leave

"For this memory to persist or restart, you always need a material medium, a text, an image, otherwise you sink into oblivion," emphasizes Frédéric Mougenot.

If Tutankhamun is remembered, it is above all for his funerary treasure.

If it hadn't been for this funerary treasure, he would be one of the third or fifth zone pharaohs.

And that necessarily resonates with our society of images at all costs, social networks that raise the question of the speed of these images.

A stone colossus 12 meters high can break, but before it completely disappears, it takes a long time.

The Mucem is also hosting an imposing fist from a colossal statue of Ramses II in this exhibition.

Goodbye TikTok choreography, hello a sculpture like in

Ghost

Great, you will aim

To mark one's time, and above all to get noticed, excess is not a bad thing… Quite the contrary.

Throughout the exhibition, there is a link between the celebrity of the pharaohs and their building fever which maintains a certain fascination.

“The Pharaoh Cheops is the one who built the highest monument of humanity until the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages, notes Frédéric Mougenot.

This inevitably had an impact on the local mentality and folklore.

The name of this builder of pyramids remains very much alive in ancient Egyptian culture, more than 1,000 years after his reign.

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Take care of your image, you will watch

We would like to say the opposite.

But obviously, the appearance counts for being a little known.

Or at least it helps, when you're a pretty queen of Egypt like Nefertiti.

"In the 19th century, we rediscovered Nefertiti," explains Frédéric Mougenot.

When we discover her bust, her beauty corresponds to the canons of beauty of the time.

“An image that then crossed the centuries, to the point that the bust of Nefertiti is one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Egypt.

A soul of "Serge le Mytho", you will have

And if the secret of those who become legends is to be, precisely?

Several very famous pharaohs at certain periods of history base their prestige on totally fantasized stories, when it is not their very existence that remains to be proven.

"Ramses II became a star from the 19th century," underlines Frédéric Mougenot.

We then associate Ramses as the most glorious pharaoh, with a luxurious court.

But we know today that it is quite legendary.

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Lucid, you will stay

“The celebrities of yesterday are not those of today, and perhaps not those of tomorrow, warns Frédéric Mougenot.

Who remembers Nectanebo, who in the Middle Ages was considered the father of Alexander the Great, or even Amasis, Psammetichus or Sesostris, celebrated in Europe in the 18th century?

Not to mention Sesostris III or Amenemhat III, venerated by the Egyptians of the first millennium.

Even pharaohs can therefore become has-beens overnight.

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