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A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft ... A series of CT scans performed on a 2,400-year-old mummy in 2008 revealed a tool that was left inside the ...
Jewelry on mummy, model vessels of alabaster, pottery and copper, alabaster slabs inscribed with names of sacred oils, model gilded copper tools [28] 6th Pyramid of Pepi I: Inscribed black stone sarcophagus Mummy fragment Granite canopic chest, 1 intact alabaster canopic jar and fragments of others, viscera Pyramid Texts
The mummy of Wah was discovered in a 1920 dig organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The mummy was displayed for years before X-ray analysis revealed a number of small objects of value within the wrapping. [40] [41] The outer layer of the body's linen wrappings were dyed red and inscribed with protective words. [42] [43 ...
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
Analysis of the mummy revealed the official lived to be 65 years old, much older than expected during that time period. The mastaba was discovered between Abusir and Saqqara, pyramid fields south ...
The search seeks to find Antony's mummy as well, despite Plutarch's statement that Antony was cremated: "After Cleopatra had heard this, in the first place, she begged Octavian that she might be permitted to pour libations for Antony; and when the request was granted, she had herself carried to the tomb, and embracing the urn which held his ashes."
The mummy has not been studied since and its identification remains uncertain. — Sanakht: 3rd: Male 1901 A mummy was uncovered in 1881 by John Garstang in the large mastaba K2 at Beit Khallaf. The mummy was over 1.87 m (6 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall, which is considerably taller than the 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) average of prehistoric and later ...
KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis.It has long been speculated, as well as much disputed, that the body found in this tomb was that of the famous king, Akhenaten, who moved the capital to Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna).