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The name 'Unlucky Mummy' is misleading as the artifact is not a mummy at all, but rather a gessoed and painted wooden 'mummy-board' or inner coffin lid. It was found at Thebes and can be dated by its shape and the style of its decoration to the late 21st or early 22nd Dynasty (c 950–900 BC). In the British Museum it is known by its serial ...
Mummy of Katebet at the British Museum. Katebet was an Ancient Egyptian priestess who held the office of "Chantress of Amun". Katebet's coffin and mummy were found in Thebes, Egypt. They are on display at the British Museum. A CT scan of her mummy revealed that she was elderly when she died. [1]
The coffin was opened and the mummy unrolled on 27 January 1835 in Belfast Natural History Society’s museum at College Square North. Edward Hincks , a leading Egyptologist from Ireland , was present and deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs which revealed that she was a noblewoman and the mistress of a great house.
The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...
Preparing for the afterlife “Inside Ancient Egypt” is one of the most popular exhibits at the museum and includes a three-story replica of a type of tomb called a mastaba.The tomb’s burial ...
The upper part of the inner coffin of Hornedjitef. Hornedjitef was an ancient Egyptian priest in the Temple of Amun at Karnak during the reign of Ptolemy III (246–222 BC). He is known from his elaborate coffins, mummy mask and mummy, dating from the Early Ptolemaic Period (around 220 BC) and excavated from Asasif, Thebes, Egypt, which are all held in the British Museum.
The coffin of the "screaming" mummy is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. - Rogers Fund, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The mummy’s coffin reportedly did not weather time well and is described as having cracks throughout its base and top. In a statement, Egypt’s antiquities ministry said emergency preservation ...