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Mummy of DjedkhonsiufankhThird Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, c. 945–715 B.C.Materials: wood, plaster, linen, gold, glass (inlay), human tissueTechnique: gilded, painted, inlaidBritish Museum. EA 6662

When acquired in 1834, this mummy rested within a gilded cartonnage case and a wooden coffin adorned with a luminous gold face and inlaid glass eyes. Painted deities and...


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Hes-ewers were used for pouring ritual libations. It is not known how it came to be in the tomb of Psusennes I in Tanis on the east bank of the Nile in Lower Egypt. Ahmose fought against the Hyksos, and it is possible that it came from a monument of his reign in the eastern Nile Delta.

This beautiful gold vase with carved stripes on the body reveals the fine taste a...


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Unidentified MaleOld Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c. 2305–2152 B.C.From Abydos, EgyptMichael C. Carlos Museum. Inventory no. 1921.001

This remarkably preserved Old Kingdom mummy offers a rare insight into early Egyptian burial practice, revealing a period when the body was arranged ...


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British Museum. EA 20745

Irthorru was a man who once rose each day not to fields or markets, but to the presence of a god. Living in


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The “Untouchable” Mummy of Bashiri, c. 305 B.C. to 30 B.C.Musee du Louvre. N 2627

The Mummy of Bashiri is one of the most arresting survivals of Ancient Egyptian funerary art, not because of what has been revealed, but because of what has been deliberately left untouched.

Now displayed in the Musée du Louvre, the mummy dates to the Ptolemaic Period, roughly the...


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