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Due to the ushabti's commonness through all Egyptian time periods, and world museums' desire to represent ancient Egyptian art objects, the ushabti is one of the most commonly represented objects in Egyptology displays. Produced in huge numbers, ushabtis, along with scarabs, are the most numerous of all ancient Egyptian antiquities to survive.
Stick shabtis had a different purpose to most of the normal ushabtis. While ushabtis were most often placed into the burial chamber and had the function to work for the deceased, stick shabtis were always found in the overground cult chapel of Egyptian tombs, only at Thebes. They are often placed into roughly carved model coffins.
Maatkare (Mutemhat) was an ancient Egyptian high priestess, a God's Wife of Amun during the 21st Dynasty. [1 ... shawabtis and other mummies from her immediate family ...
There were four shabti boxes in total, containing a total of 40 brightly coloured shabtis made of both wood and pottery. [4] A funerary papyrus was included in her burial as well. The text is Spell 100 from the Book of the Dead (a spell about worthiness and permission to go aboard the bark of Ra) and is written rather unusually in red and white ...
The Serapeum of Saqqara was the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis.It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which would become immortal after death as Osiris-Apis, a name which evolved to Serapis (Σέραπις) in the Hellenistic period, and Userhapi (ⲟⲩⲥⲉⲣϩⲁⲡⲓ) in Coptic.
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the remains of a multi-skilled wizard-doctor who treated the pharaohs some 4,000 years ago.. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...
Shebitku or Shabataka [3] (Ancient Egyptian: šꜣ-bꜣ-tꜣ-kꜣ, Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒃻𒉺𒋫𒆪𒀪, romanized: Šapatakuʾ, Ancient Greek: Σεθῶν Sethōn or Ancient Greek: Σαβάκων Sabakōn) [4] [5] also known as Shebitqo, was the second pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt who ruled from 714 BC – 705 BC, according to the most recent academic research.
Webensenu or Vepan-Senu, was an ancient Egyptian prince of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He was a son of Pharaoh Amenhotep II and the brother of pharaoh Thutmose IV. [1] Possibly mummy of Webensenu. He is mentioned, along with his brother Nedjem, on a statue of Minmose, overseer of the works in Karnak. [2]