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Digging layer by layer at the Saqqara site in Giza, moving earth one bucket at a time, archaeologists have found a giant trove of ancient coffins and mummies, along with ceramic amulets believed ...
Bark and decomposed wood found on top of sarcophagus [5] [6] 4th: Meidum Pyramid: Pieces of wooden coffin Undecorated Cedar logs embedded in masonry [7] [8] 4th Bent Pyramid: Undecorated Wood plank still holding back blocking stone, cedar logs [7] [9] 4th Red Pyramid: Fragments of human remains Undecorated [10] 4th Great Pyramid of Giza
Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities. The discovery at a cemetery in Saqqara contained statues of the gods Anubis ...
A coffin lid found in the pyramid of Menakure. A wooden anthropoid coffin inscribed with Menkaure's name and containing the remains of a mummy were found in the upper burial chamber and later transferred safely to the British Museum. [7] The coffin was radiocarbon dated to 1212–846 BC, from the late New Kingdom to the Third Intermediate Period.
More than 2,600 years since they were buried, archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country's capital Cairo, one ...
Anthropoid coffin and sarcophagus of priest Ken-Hor (26th Dynasty, c. 7th century BCE), in the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin. After having been preserved, the mummy was placed into a coffin. Although the coffins that housed the deceased bodies were made simply of wood, they were intricately painted and designed to suit each individual.
The Serapeum of Saqqara was the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis.It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which would become immortal after death as Osiris-Apis, a name which evolved to Serapis (Σέραπις) in the Hellenistic period, and Userhapi (ⲟⲩⲥⲉⲣϩⲁⲡⲓ) in Coptic.
The ancient Egyptian method of embalming a dead body to preserve it in as much of a life-like manner as possible started during about 2600 BC, according to the Smithsonian. The practice developed ...