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- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Second Dynasty Tomb Found At Lahun
Reuters Archaeologists have found a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb near Egypt's mud brick Lahun pyramid, in a sign that the site held religious significance a millennium before previously thought, the site head said Tuesday. The find, down crumbling...
- Borrowers Heal Ancient Egyptian Coffin Smashed In 1969 Protest
cbcnews.caA rare 2,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus shattered in a student protest almost four decades ago is expected to be a whole, new artifact when it returns to its home in Montreal after a sojourn in Gatineau. The elaborately-painted Hetep-Bastet...
- Kv63 - The Infant Coffin
http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htmDr Schaden has updated the KV63 website at the above address with information about the small coffin known as Coffin D: "As I believe the time is right, I would like to make mention of the small infant coffin, labeled...
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Rare Egyptian coffin identified in Torquay Museum
BBC News
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A coffin on display at a museum in Devon is a rare 3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus, it has emerged.
Torquay Museum were unaware of the coffin's significance until an expert from Bristol University identified it as one of only two in the country.
Dr Aidan Dodson, who is cataloguing the country's Egyptian artefacts, believes the coffin pre-dates the mummified boy's body it contains by 1,000 years.
He said: "It's very significant as very few coffins of that period survive."
The highly decorated sarcophagus and the mummified remains of a boy, aged between three and four, were donated to the museum in the 1950s.
But the artefacts were kept in storage for years and rarely displayed until 2007 when they were selected as the centrepiece of an Egyptian exhibition.
- 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...
- Hidden Treasures At The Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto Sun (Kevin Connor) With video. Some curators at the Royal Ontario Museum seem introverted and not keen on sharing their artifacts — and then there is Egyptology educator Gayle Gibson. Her personality is as large as a pyramid and she was delighted...
- Second Dynasty Tomb Found At Lahun
Reuters Archaeologists have found a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb near Egypt's mud brick Lahun pyramid, in a sign that the site held religious significance a millennium before previously thought, the site head said Tuesday. The find, down crumbling...
- Borrowers Heal Ancient Egyptian Coffin Smashed In 1969 Protest
cbcnews.caA rare 2,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus shattered in a student protest almost four decades ago is expected to be a whole, new artifact when it returns to its home in Montreal after a sojourn in Gatineau. The elaborately-painted Hetep-Bastet...
- Kv63 - The Infant Coffin
http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htmDr Schaden has updated the KV63 website at the above address with information about the small coffin known as Coffin D: "As I believe the time is right, I would like to make mention of the small infant coffin, labeled...