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Mummy. 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.
The following is a list of mummies that have been found in Egypt dating to the pharaonic dynasties. This list includes people who were considered to be court officials, nobles, or commoners by historians. Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions.
Tutankhamun's mummy. Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered by English Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team on 28 October 1925 in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, making his mummy over 3,300 years old. Tutankhamun's mummy is the only royal mummy to have been ...
The following is a list of mummies that include Egyptian pharaohs and their named mummified family members. 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 repressenting the mummy as a result).
The following is a list of museums with reasonably complete mummies from Egypt in their collections, as well as information on them when applicable. This includes the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. This includes the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
The third mummy meaning was "the body of a human being or animal embalmed (according to the ancient Egyptian or some analogous method) as a preparation for burial" (1615), and "a human or animal body desiccated by exposure to sun or air" (1727). Mummia was originally used in mummy's first meaning "a medicinal preparation…" (1486), then in the ...
Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris. This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden ...
4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside — unearthed in Egypt. Again. Moira Ritter. September 28, 2023 at 5:21 PM. Screengrab from Facebook. Nearly 160 years ago, Auguste Mariette ...