By Town Crier Staff Report

Nearly 150 objects, many never before shown outside of the British Museum, are on view at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor through Nov. 11.

Fine Arts Museum docent Connie Ewy will walk the audience through three millennia of colossal stone fragments, papyri, mummy masks, jewelry and intricate inscriptions in a lecture at 7:30 pm, Sept. 10, in the Hillview Community Center Multipurpose Room, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos.

The “Eternal Egypt” lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the Los Altos Library, is free and open to the public, .

“Eternal Egypt” covers a time period from the First Dynasty, about 3100 B.C., to the 4th century Roman occupation of Egypt.

Great quantities of Egyptian antiquities survived because most were made for the tombs of Egypt’s upper strata. The “Book of the Dead,” with its lexicon of spells and rituals to facilitate the soul’s passage through the afterlife, is an example of ancient Egyptian illustrated papyri included in this single West Coast venue.

Ewy, longtime docent for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, specializes in medieval art, and French and American art history.

For more information about the lecture, call 948-8710.