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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 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 ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Plate from By Nile and Tigris [5] vol.2, 1920 (facing p.360) showing how the body (EA 32751) was displayed in the British Museum at that time. The mummies were acquired by the British Museum in 1900. [17] One male adult body, museum number EA 32751 (nicknamed "Ginger"), went on display in 1901 and was the earliest mummified body seen by the public.
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
It was recently announced that a team of Russian researchers working roughly 50 miles outside of Cairo discovered a mummy wearing a detailed, blue and gold burial mask, reports Newsweek.
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.
Draped with the Royal Standard of Scotland with a wreath of Balmoral flowers on top, the Queen’s oak coffin was seen in public for the first time at 10am Sunday as it began its six-hour trip ...