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The mummy of Wah was discovered in a 1920 dig organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The mummy was displayed for years before X-ray analysis revealed a number of small objects of value within the wrapping. [40] [41] The outer layer of the body's linen wrappings were dyed red and inscribed with protective words. [42] [43 ...
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).
The body was exhibited at once in the First Egyptian Room, and for the first time the British public saw a neolithic Egyptian. — Wallis Budge , By Nile and Tigris , 1920 [ 5 ] Of the other five bodies, only the female adult, given museum number EA 32752, has been exhibited.
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 ...
Her mummified body is stored at the Cairo Egyptian Museum. Saleem said she had previously studied two other open-mouthed mummies from ancient Egypt. One, a mummy thought to be the remains of a ...
The discovery also uncovered a queen’s pyramid, which has since been tied to Queen Neith—a previously unknown queen to Egyptian history. Archaeologists Unearth Nearly 300 Egyptian Mummies in ...
Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to ...
This is a list of mummies – corpses whose skin and organs have been preserved intentionally, or incidentally. This list does not include the following: Bog bodies for which there is a separate list; List of Egyptian mummies (royalty) List of Egyptian mummies (officials, nobles, and commoners)