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The following is a list of mummies that have been found in Egypt dating to the pharaonic dynasties. This list includes individuals who were considered to be court officials, nobles, or commoners by historians. Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental ...
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).
In addition to the mummies of ancient Egypt, deliberate mummification was a feature of several ancient cultures in areas of America and Asia with very dry climates. The Spirit Cave mummies of Fallon, Nevada , in North America were accurately dated at more than 9,400 years old.
A 2020 study peered into the mummies of a snake and a cat from the collection of the Egypt Center at Swansea University in the UK. They used a technique called micro-CT scanning to get more ...
Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered by English Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team on 28 October 1925 in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, making his mummy over 3,300 years old. Tutankhamun's mummy is notable for being the only royal mummy to have been ...
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 ...
Mummies found at burial site in Egypt. The mummy’s coffin reportedly did not weather time well and is described as having cracks throughout its base and top. In a statement, Egypt’s ...
Reports in 2008 and 2009 focused on an announcement by the noted Egyptologist Zahi Hawass that he might find the tomb in Taposiris Magna, a temple to Osiris, located west of Alexandria, Egypt. Excavations carried out by Kathleen Martínez have yielded ten mummies in 27 tombs of Egyptian nobles, as well as coins bearing images of Cleopatra and ...