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The coffin of Nedjemankh is a gilded ancient Egyptian coffin from the late Ptolemaic Period.It once encased the mummy of Nedjemankh, a priest of the ram-god Heryshaf.The coffin was purchased by the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art in July 2017 to be the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled "Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin."
Henut-wedjebu was an ancient Egyptian noblewoman buried in the late Eighteenth Dynasty during the reigns of Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV.She is known from her intact burial at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, discovered in 1896 by French Egyptologist Georges Daressy.
Two more coffins, purchased by the museum in 1867, were topped with a creature that was part eel, part cobra and had a human head, the study said, depicting the ancient Egyptian solar and creator ...
Butehamun died during the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, [10] which lasted from 1077 BC to 943 BC. The whereabouts of Butehamun's mummy are unknown. [13] A set of coffins belonging to Butehamun—an outer coffin, an inner coffin, and a "false lid"—were probably [13] found in the tomb of Nakhte-Min (), a workman from the Eighteenth Dynasty. [10]
Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities. ... The 250 coffins, 150 bronze statues and other objects dated to the Late ...
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 ...
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) is devoted to ancient Egypt, located at Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. It was founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). The Rosicrucian order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities.
The ancient Egyptians are well known to have placed a great importance on burials, and a recent find further exemplifies that. Museum finds 18-week-old mummified fetus inside tiny Egyptian coffin ...