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Tourists visit the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, on January 28, 2025. /CGTN

A figure of the resurrection of Osiris is displayed at the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, on January 28, 2025. /CGTN

During the Spring Festival holiday from January 28 to February 4, the Shanghai Museum continued to receive large numbers of visitors. Most of them came for the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt," making "celebrating the New Year with culture" a new trend.

A head of a statue of Nefertiti is displayed at the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, on January 28, 2025. /CGTN

A bust of King Ramesses II is displayed at the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, on January 28, 2025. /CGTN

Co-hosted by the museum and the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, the exhibition, which runs from July 19, 2024, to August 17, 2025, features 788 artifacts from various periods of ancient Egypt, including statues of pharaohs, mummy sarcophagi and gold jewelry. More than 95 percent of the exhibits are on display in Asia for the first time, according to the museum.

A statue is displayed at the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, on January 28, 2025. /CGTN

A mummy mask of a woman is displayed at the exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, on January 28, 2025. /CGTN

The number of tickets sold for the exhibition has exceeded 1.4 million, with more than 70 percent of the visitors coming from other provinces, municipalities, and overseas, according to the Shanghai Observer.