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  2. National Museum of Egyptian Civilization - Wikipedia

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    The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is a large museum (490,000 square metres (5,300,000 sq ft) located in Old Cairo, a district of Cairo, Egypt.. Partially opened in 2017, the museum was officially inaugurated on 3 April 2021 by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, in an ...

  3. List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections

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    Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...

  4. List of Egyptian mummies (royalty) - Wikipedia

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    At some point she was moved to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo where she remains to this day. Ahmose-Sitkamose: Sitkamose Un­known 17th/18th Female 1881 Sitkamose's mummy was discovered in 1881 in the Deir el-Bahari cache. Her mummy was unwrapped by Gaston Maspero on June 19, 1886 where it was found to be damaged by tomb robbers. Sitkamose was ...

  5. List of museums of Egyptian antiquities - Wikipedia

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    Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]

  6. Archaeologists discover a trove of ancient coffins and ...

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    Believed to have ruled for approximately 12 years between 2300 and 2181 B.C., Teti was the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Although Teti’s sarcophagus is 4,300 years old ...

  7. Archaeologists uncover trove of ancient Egyptian mummies

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    The painted wooden coffins were found intact in burial shafts and contained mummies, amulets and wooden boxes. ... and was sent to the laboratory of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for study, said ...

  8. 8 ways new technology changed the way we think about ancient ...

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    About 2,300 years ago, a wealthy teen's family buried him with 49 amulets made of gold and semi-precious stones. His body was sitting in the basement of Cairo's Egyptian Museum for over 100 years.

  9. List of Egyptian mummies (officials, nobles, and commoners)

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    This mummy was one of the very few that remained undisturbed in its sarcophagus since first mentioned in 1876. Sha-Amun-en-su lived during the 22nd dynasty, and was a priestess as well as a temple singer. Her mummy was destroyed in 2018 from a large-scale fire in the National Museum of Brazil, where her mummy had been on display. Shep-en-Isis