To preserve the mummy, a tomb was built and furnished with objects the deceased had used during his lifetime. Small statuettes of servants (ushabti, or answerers) were also placed in the tomb. The Egyptians believed that through magical incantations the deceased could bring these statuettes to...
Now that the learners know how to mummify (somewhat), further the discussion by showing them artifacts. It would be a first-hand experience if they could see an actual Egyptian mummy in museums — many museums in and out of the US house Egyptian antiquities. In case a field trip is not...
We went deep down, inside two tombs with empty square rooms, all covered with hieroglyphs. All that was found there was now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In one of the tombs was found the sarcophagus with the mummy of the daughter of Ramses. One of the Ramseses actually since there ...
The Mummy player designs a maze-like tomb full of booby traps while the Explorer plans where in the maze to leave his special items of assistance. Then moving one space at a time through the darkness, the Explorer makes his way to the center of the tomb, where he will face off against...
One panel painting in the Manchester collection – one of only around 100 still attached to the mummy – represents a young man with gilding added to laurels in his hair and between his lips, motifs of divinity. Recent re-examination of the CT scan of the mummy suggests that the individual...
Mummy Ramesses II was originally buried in the tomb KV7 in the Valley of the Kings but, because of looting, priests later transferred the body to a holding area, re-wrapped it, and placed it inside the tomb of queen Inhapy. 72 hours later it was again moved, to the tomb of the high...
The word "mummy" is from the Arabicmum, meaning "wax" Mud was pushed under the mummy’s skin to pad it out. False eyes could be made from onions. Hooked tools pulled the brain (which was always removed, along with the kidneys, liver, lungs, and heart) through the nose.[2] ...
The mummy was ferried across the lake belonging to the temple, and taken before the judge Osiris. A pair of scales was brought forth by the dog-headed Anubis and the hawk-headed Horus; and with this they weighed the past life of the deceased. The judge, with the advice of a jury of...
Preserved in amazing detail on her mummified torso, the surviving images represent the only known examples of tattoos found on Egyptian mummies showing recognizable pictures, rather than abstract designs. The mummy was found at a site on the west bank of the Nile River known as Deir el-Medina,...
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (The Mummy, 1972, pp.2-3), in quoting Professor Owen (and also Jequier), had pointed out that taking the sum of the correspondence notable in collections of skulls from Egyptian graveyards the Egyptian race was certainly not of the Australioid type, but "more su...