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She came from Akhmim, Upper Egypt and was involved in the cult of Amun. She died aged about 25. She appears to have been placed in a recycled coffin, as textile from the coffin lining was dated to 485 BC – a discrepancy of 300 years. [36] Tayesmutengebtiu Chantress of Amun c.900 BC 22nd Dynasty Female 1850s-1880s —
Ammit (/ ˈ æ m ɪ t /; Ancient Egyptian: ꜥm-mwt, "Devourer of the Dead"; also rendered Ammut or Ahemait) was an ancient Egyptian goddess [2] [clarification needed] with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians. In ancient ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Coffin texts and wooden models disappeared from new tombs of the period while heart scarabs and figurines shaped as mummies were now often included in burials, as they would be for the remainder of Egyptian history. Coffin decoration was simplified.