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Humans had been mummified consistently since the days of the early peoples of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, hundreds of years before even the first animals was mummified. The earliest signs of non-human animal mummies are dated to the Badarian Predynastic Period (5500–4000 BCE), before the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. [ 28 ]
Some animal mummifications were performed to serve as sacred offerings to the deities who often took the form of animals such as cats, frogs, cows, baboons, and vultures. Other animals were mummified with the intention of being a food offering to humans in the afterlife. Mummy of a peregrine falcon c. 2000–1001 BCE
Umm El Qaʻāb (sometimes romanised Umm El Gaʻab, Arabic: أم القعاب) is an archaeological site located at Abydos, Egypt. [1] Its modern name, meaning "Mother of Pots", refers to the mound made of millions of broken pieces of pots which defines the landscape.
4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside — unearthed in Egypt. Again. 2,300-year-old shipwreck — filled with wine jars — found off Egypt coast. See them. Unearthed mummy may be ...
The tomb was partially discovered nearly 160 years ago but was lost in the sand until now. 4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside — unearthed in Egypt. Again
Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.. At the end of prehistory, "Predynastic Egypt" is traditionally defined as the period from the final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6210 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000 BC.
Excavations in central China uncovered a 5,000-year-old tomb filled with artifacts from the Dawenkou Culture. ... bone tools, animal remains, and 100 pieces of pottery. The presence of the pig ...
The tomb was established during the Old Kingdom of Egypt in the 25th century BC and reused later. The cats were probably mummified as tissue shreds were still stuck in their bones. [42] Excavations in the Bubasteum area at Saqqara in the early 1980s yielded 200 cat mummies in the tomb of the Vizier Aperel. [43]