Mummy mania makes comeback in Liverpool

The UKs largest ancient Egyptian collection outside the British Museum goes back on show today (28 April) at Liverpools World Museum after an 18-month, 1.8m refurbishment. The renewed displays trace 5,000 years of Egyptian antiquity, as well as the history of the collection, which was founded by a local jeweller, Joseph Mayer, at the height of 19th-century Egyptomania. The gallery has trebled in size to 1,000 sq. m and will house around 1,000 artefacts, from a four-metre-long Book of the Dead p