Egypt
I believe that this photograph was taken when Egypt's national collection was in the Gizeh palace after 1890 and before 1902 when the collection was again transferred to the newly built Cairo museum.
The picture appears to be taken with the 21rst dynasty high priest's family coffins in the foreground though I can only make out about a dozen possible coffins. That would represent about one in three of the mummies found in the king's cache DB320 at Deir el-Bahri.
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- Tuesday's Egyptian: The Lost Mummy Of King Kamose
Why...
- Malawi Museum Artifacts To Be Restored
About a dozen damaged artifacts too heavy for looters to carry away and left behind in the Malawi museum including a collection of statues, a number of painted coffins and two mummies have been sent for restoration at the Al-Ashmuonein archaeological...
- 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...
- Unknown Man "e"
This is the mummy I hear called Pentaware but better known as "Unknown man E". Many of the last one hundred and twenty five years most famous Egyptologist's have believed that this could be the body of this Twentieth Dynasty prince who was found...
Egypt
Royal Mummies Hall at Gizeh?
I believe that this photograph was taken when Egypt's national collection was in the Gizeh palace after 1890 and before 1902 when the collection was again transferred to the newly built Cairo museum.
The picture appears to be taken with the 21rst dynasty high priest's family coffins in the foreground though I can only make out about a dozen possible coffins. That would represent about one in three of the mummies found in the king's cache DB320 at Deir el-Bahri.
- Slideshow Of The Ashmolean Musem Egyptian Galleries
The Telegraph (Video by Glen Milner) Video. Thanks to the Collecting Egypt blog for this link. I really must visit! The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has opened six spectacular new galleries for its world-renowned Egyptian collections, exhibiting...
- Tuesday's Egyptian: The Lost Mummy Of King Kamose
Why...
- Malawi Museum Artifacts To Be Restored
About a dozen damaged artifacts too heavy for looters to carry away and left behind in the Malawi museum including a collection of statues, a number of painted coffins and two mummies have been sent for restoration at the Al-Ashmuonein archaeological...
- 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...
- Unknown Man "e"
This is the mummy I hear called Pentaware but better known as "Unknown man E". Many of the last one hundred and twenty five years most famous Egyptologist's have believed that this could be the body of this Twentieth Dynasty prince who was found...