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Tjayasetimu was a "singer of the interior" likely of the god Amun; such singers were often daughters of the elite. CT-scanning has revealed she died around the age of seven and has shoulder length hair arranged on the sides and back of her head. Her mummified body was placed in a decorated cartonnage coffin depicting her as an adult woman.
Inside each outer coffin was a gilded inner coffin, which in turn contained the mummified and wrapped body of a stillborn child "preserved in accordance with burial custom of the Eighteenth Dynasty". [3] 317a was the smaller of the two mummies and had a gilded cartonnage mask; the other mummy, 317b, was a little larger and did not have a mask. [4]
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).
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Mummified remains of an old man Niche for canopic chest Undecorated Broken pottery, faience bead on a gold filament [25] [3] 5th Pyramid of Unas: Greywacke sarcophagus Mummied remains of a human (incl. right arm, skull and shinbone) Pyramid Texts, rich deorations Wooden handles of two knives [26] 6th: Pyramid of Teti: Greywacke sarcophagus
One male adult body, museum number EA 32751 (nicknamed "Ginger"), went on display in 1901 and was the earliest mummified body seen by the public. Apart from maintenance, it has been on continuous display in the same gallery since 1901. [18] [19] In 1987, the body was temporarily taken off display for restoration and a female mummified body ...
Her body was mummified, and her father, overtaken by grief, built an elaborate tomb in her honor; featuring a poem of ten lines inscribed in Greek elegiac couplets. A cult was established around her tomb. Isadora's mummified remains are still present, encased in glass, in her mausoleum – a prominent building at Tuna el-Gebel. [14]
A mummified man likely to be Ramesses I. A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.