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Butehamun died during the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, [10] which lasted from 1077 BC to 943 BC. The whereabouts of Butehamun's mummy are unknown. [13] A set of coffins belonging to Butehamun—an outer coffin, an inner coffin, and a "false lid"—were probably [13] found in the tomb of Nakhte-Min (), a workman from the Eighteenth Dynasty. [10]
The mummy and coffin of Ankh-hap are housed in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, on permanent loan from the Texas A&M University. His body is much fragmented and has been reinforced with wooden sticks. [1] Antjau Unknown 664-660 BC 26th: Male Unknown Displayed in the Royal Ontario Museum. [2] Asru Temple singer 700 BC 25th: Female 1825
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 ...
Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...
In November 2024, a team of Egyptian and American archaeologists announced the finding of 11 sealed burials in a Middle Kingdom tomb near Luxor, close to the latest site. Inside that tomb, the 11 ...
The Khufu ship is an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt. It was sealed into a pit alongside the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500 BC, during the Fourth Dynasty of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom. Like other buried Ancient Egyptian ships, it was part of the extensive grave goods intended for use in the afterlife.
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As each excavation was completed, local Egyptian residents would continue to search the sites for remains. In 1895 E. A. Wallis Budge, on behalf of the British Museum, procured inscribed coffins and funerary furniture from the 12th Dynasty tombs at Al-Barshah by working with the Egyptian Service of Antiquities. [3]