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He was 55–65 years old at the time of his death. [12] Imhotep: Vizier: Unknown 18th: Male 1903–1905 — Irtyersenu: c.600BC 26th Female Before 1825 — Irtyersenu, also known as "Dr Granville's mummy" or "the Granville mummy" was an ancient Egyptian woman who died aged around 50 and was buried in Thebes.
The mummy of the child has been radiocarbon dated, via the deepest coal layer where it was found, to 7438 ± 220 BP, and, via the animal hide it was wrapped in, to 5405 ± 180 BP, [11] which has been calibrated to 6250 cal BP. [12] This date precedes the earliest known Ancient Egyptian mummies by one thousand years.
List of Egyptian mummies (officials, nobles, and commoners) Name ... diverse lifetimes; e.g. a 400-year-old mummy of a nun: Sui Shaoyan (遂少言) China: died 67 BCE ...
Archaeologists Unearth Nearly 300 Egyptian Mummies ... New Kingdom mummies are an intriguing find in the Old Kingdom site. ... 6th century B.C.—over 1,000 years after his death in 2181 B.C ...
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 ...
In 1881, a mummy of a 5- to 6-year-old boy was found in cache and identified as Ahmose-Sipair. This was disputed as Prince Ahmose-Sipair is always portrayed as an adult on the coffin of the scribe and other antiquities, thus the child-mummy cannot be his. [44] KV55 mummy Akhenaten or Smenkhkare: 18th Male
Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies housed in Chicago’s Field Museum, the one of an aristocrat Chenet-aa who lived 3,000 years ago has stood out in particular due to her strange burial procedure.
The mummy of a six-month-old boy found in Qilakitsoq. In 1972, eight remarkably preserved mummies were discovered at an abandoned Inuit settlement called Qilakitsoq, in Greenland. The "Greenland Mummies" consisted of a six-month-old baby, a four-year-old boy, and six women of various ages, who died around 500 years ago.