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The following is a list of mummies that have been found in Egypt dating to the pharaonic dynasties. This list includes people who were considered to be court officials, nobles, or commoners by historians. Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions.
The following is a list of mummies that include Egyptian pharaohs and their named mummified family members. [a] Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions (with some only having small fragments representing the mummy as a result).
This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt.
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 ...
The tomb’s burial chambers, dated to 2400 BC, contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies. Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul remained inside the body after death, so ...
This method was widely used in the pre-dynastic Egyptian period, before artificial mummification was developed. [7] The natural mummification that occurred with these dry sand burials may have led to the original Egyptian belief in an after-death survival and started the tradition of leaving food and implements for an afterlife. [8]
Open-mouthed mummies. The “screaming woman” had been buried beneath the tomb of Senmut, an architect of the temple of Egyptian queen Hatschepsut (1479–1458 BC) who held important positions ...
The mummy of Yuya "This is perhaps the most perfect example of the embalmer's art at the time of its zenith in Ancient Egypt." [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Yuya and his wife were buried in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes , where their private tomb, now numbered KV46, was discovered in 1905 [ 18 ] by James Quibell , who was working on behalf of Theodore M ...