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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 2023 Hekashepes's intact burial was discovered at Saqqara. His stone sarcophagus was found at the bottom of a shaft at Gisr el-Mudir, near the Step Pyramid. His body appeared to be wearing clothes and jewellery including a collar and belt, and is decorated with gold. [6] [7] [8] Henut Taui: Priestess: Unknown 21st: Female Unknown ...
One eyewitness wrote that he was told the Pharaoh's name was "Necho." [126] Based on where they were found, and the writings found on them, the mummies are not believed to have been Pharoahs, but priests and nobles from the Ptolemaic era of Egypt (323–30 BCE). No known Pharaohs or their family members have names that resemble "Onitus" or ...
A team of archaeological divers found pieces of ancient Egyptian artifacts that have been sitting at the bottom of the Nile River since the area was flooded in the 1960s and 1970s.
Queen's pyramid of Neith: Granite sarcophagus Granite canopic chest Pyramid Texts, starred ceiling Descending passage: granite false door, burial chamber: miniature (inscribed) bronze tableware, stone vases [33] [34] Queen's pyramid of Neith: Fragments of pottery, 3 alabaster vessels [34] Queen's pyramid of Iput II (and Ankhesenpepi IV)
A life-size sarcophagus of the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Seti I was rediscovered in 1817 by Belzoni in the Valley of the Kings. [13] The 3,200-year-old Statue of Ramesses II was discovered in 1820 by Giovanni Battista Caviglia at the Great Temple of Ptah near Memphis, Egypt. The statue was found broken in six pieces and earlier attempts at ...
Senusret II or Sesostris II was the fourth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt.He ruled from 1897 BC to 1878 BC. His pyramid was constructed at El-Lahun.Senusret II took a great deal of interest in the Faiyum oasis region and began work on an extensive irrigation system from Bahr Yussef through to Lake Moeris through the construction of a dike at El-Lahun and the addition of a network of ...
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