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Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
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
One archaeologist told Live Science the coffin where the scroll was found dates to the Late Period, or about 712 B.C. to 332 B.C. The fully restored papyrus is on display at the Egyptian Museum of ...
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]
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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 ...
Upon completion of the restoration work, Egyptian authorities decided to severely restrict public access to the tomb in order to preserve the delicate paintings found within. Five years later, Egypt's Prime Minister, Hisham Zazao, declared the tomb to be reopened to visitors, 150 visitors at a time. [ 3 ]
The chamber tomb contained a set of two coffins, one outer wooden box coffin and one inner anthropoid coffin for each of the tomb owners. The coffins are decorated on the outside with a palace facade motif and several text lines. The coffins and the texts are very close to coffins found at Asyut and it seems possible that they were produced ...