Egypt
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- Amenhotep's Toe
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- The Mummy On The Boat
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- The Cash Register In The Desert
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Egypt
A piece of Mummy wrapping
ABC South West Victoria
While some of the Warrnambool Art Gallery's more eclectic objects are reasonably well documented, this particular piece has many question marks around it which Collections Registrar Agostina Hawkins has been trying to solve.
Inside a lovely little cigarette tin decorated with pictures from Cairo are a couple of handwritten notes and a piece of material which is, apparently, a piece of Egyptian Mummy wrapping.
According to the note the wrapping is from a Mummy's tomb at Memphis from the time of King Unas.
The note also says there should be a scarab grub inside the tin, but it's no longer there.
- Croatian Mummy Found To Suffer From Hand-schuller-christian Disease
Live Science (Owen Jarus) Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likely in his 20s, passed away after suffering from a rare, cancerlike disease that may also have left him with a type of diabetes. When he died he was mummified, following the...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
...
- Amenhotep's Toe
A dramatic event has taken place among the royal mummies when workers entered the royal mummy room of Cairo's museum and found that the big toe on Amenhotep II's right foot had fallen off. No it is not a bad case of leprosy and sure maybe...
- The Mummy On The Boat
In the summer 2012 issue of KMT magazine we find on pages 34 and 35 images recently found in Milan's Egyptology archives. One photograph of the mummy on the boat found in the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of Kings, KV35 displays the position...
- The Cash Register In The Desert
"Even though we had allowed people to take pictures in the Valley, people continued to bribe the guards and take cameras into the tombs and use flash." ...