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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 ...
Pyramid Texts 2 alabaster vessels [30] 6th Pyramid of Pepi II: Greywacke sarcophagus with lid, inscribed with Pepi II's titulary Granite canopic chest lid, niche for chest Pyramid Texts, niche pattern, false doors topped with King's name Mummy wrappings, fragments of alabaster and diorite vases, golden spatula [31] [32] Queen's pyramid of Neith
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).
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.. During an ...
Tutankhamun's tomb was found by British archaeologists in 1922. First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's Gold-covered mummy found in sealed Egyptian tomb
Den seal impressions (1st Dynasty); found on a cylinder seal in Den's tomb. It lists all 1st Dynasty kings from Narmer to Den by their Horus names. [7] Palermo Stone (5th Dynasty); carved on an olivine-basalt slab. Broken into pieces and thus today incomplete. Giza writing board (6th Dynasty); painted with red, green and black ink on gypsum and ...
The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential for deciphering this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script.
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