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The Coffin Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins beginning in the First Intermediate Period. They are partially derived from the earlier Pyramid Texts , reserved for royal use only, but contain substantial new material related to everyday desires, indicating a new target audience of common people.
The mummy and coffin of Ankh-hap are housed in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, on permanent loan from the Texas A&M University. His body is much fragmented and has been reinforced with wooden sticks. [1] Antjau Unknown 664-660 BC 26th: Male Unknown Displayed in the Royal Ontario Museum. [2] Asru Temple singer 700 BC 25th: Female 1825
One archaeologist told Live Science the coffin where the scroll was found dates to the Late Period, or about 712 B.C. to 332 B.C. The fully restored papyrus is on display at the Egyptian Museum of ...
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 Caddo Mounds site is located in East Texas, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Alto on Texas State Highway 21 near its intersection with U.S. Route 69 in the Piney Woods region. Operated by the Texas Historical Commission, the museum at the site was reopened in October 2015. The new museum offers visitors a chance to explore a replica Caddo village ...
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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Texas" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass called this ancient papyrus "the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century". [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] In March 2017, the Egyptian-German team of archaeologists unearthed an eight-meter 3,000-year-old statue that included a head and a torso thought to depict Pharaoh Ramses II .