Egypt
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts)
- Another Mummy Under The Scanner - Tasherytpamenekh
Anniston Star With an excellent 16-photograph slideshow. For years, we’ve known her name, spelled out in hieroglyphs on the painted paper covering her body: “Tasherytpamenekh, justified of voice forever and ever.” It’s pronounced Ta-SHER-eet-pa-MEN-eck,...
- More Re Discovery That Lady Hor Is Actually A Man
Newsday (Erik Badia) With a photograph of the upper section of the mummy. Egyptologists from the Brooklyn Museum and doctors from North Shore University Hospital learned Tuesday through a CT scan that a 2,500-year-old mummy previously thought to be a...
- New Egyptian Gallery At Ipswich Museum
EADT24 (John Howard) A NEW Egyptian Gallery is being created at Ipswich Museum to display artefacts including a mummy mask, amulets and scarabs. The Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service announced today that it has secured a £50,000 grant from the...
- More Re Mdina Mummy
Times of Malta The hundreds of people who visited the Museum of Natural History in Mdina yesterday and on Saturday were astonished to learn of an Egyptian mummy encased in a sarcophagus housed there. Some time ago, Heritage Malta members John J. Borg,...
- The Mummy Of Ta-hathor
Experts in Manchester examining a wrapped Egyptian mummy have found bones which along with linen have been stuffed inside the mummies skull. The lady in question is from the late period and well mummified, a package on her thighs is believed to be her...
Egypt
Ipswich Museum celebrates opening of new Egyptian gallery
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts)
This Saturday, on the 7th of August, the Ipswich Museum celebrates the grand reopening of its Egyptian Gallery. At the centre of the new set-up is the mummy of Lady Tahathor, complete with her sarcophagus. Excitingly, the results from the Lady's recent visit to the hostpital - she needed a CT scan - are shown on video.
The scan on the 2,500 year old revealed that Tahathor likely died of natural causes, aged in her mid-twenties. Between her thighs, an odd bundle was discovered, thought to be the remains of her organs, removed during mummification. As was customary in ancient Egypt, the woman's heart had been placed back in her body, so it could be weighed against the 'feather of truth', a vital step on her journey through the afterlife.
- Another Mummy Under The Scanner - Tasherytpamenekh
Anniston Star With an excellent 16-photograph slideshow. For years, we’ve known her name, spelled out in hieroglyphs on the painted paper covering her body: “Tasherytpamenekh, justified of voice forever and ever.” It’s pronounced Ta-SHER-eet-pa-MEN-eck,...
- More Re Discovery That Lady Hor Is Actually A Man
Newsday (Erik Badia) With a photograph of the upper section of the mummy. Egyptologists from the Brooklyn Museum and doctors from North Shore University Hospital learned Tuesday through a CT scan that a 2,500-year-old mummy previously thought to be a...
- New Egyptian Gallery At Ipswich Museum
EADT24 (John Howard) A NEW Egyptian Gallery is being created at Ipswich Museum to display artefacts including a mummy mask, amulets and scarabs. The Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service announced today that it has secured a £50,000 grant from the...
- More Re Mdina Mummy
Times of Malta The hundreds of people who visited the Museum of Natural History in Mdina yesterday and on Saturday were astonished to learn of an Egyptian mummy encased in a sarcophagus housed there. Some time ago, Heritage Malta members John J. Borg,...
- The Mummy Of Ta-hathor
Experts in Manchester examining a wrapped Egyptian mummy have found bones which along with linen have been stuffed inside the mummies skull. The lady in question is from the late period and well mummified, a package on her thighs is believed to be her...