Coloured textile

Coloured textile with tassles from a disturbed burial. Country of Origin: Peru. Culture: Nazca. Period Date: 100 - 1400 AD, Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate period. Place of origin: South Peru. Credit Line: NJ Saunders.

Pre-Columbian skull

Pre-Columbian skull with the hair still attached. Originally the skull would have been attached to the body in a textile wrapped mummy bundle but as the cemetery has been looted the burial was disturbed. Country of Origin: Peru. Culture: Nazca. Period Date: 100 - 1400 AD, Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate period. Place of origin: South Peru. Credit Line: NJ Saunders

Skeleton of a man.

Skeleton of a man.  His body has been deposited in a cave in a foetal position typical of early 'Plains' burials and symbolic of rebirth. It was believed that his body would return to the earth but his spirit travelled to the 'Other World' from where it came, or it would return to this world in human or animal form. Country of Origin: USA. Culture: Plains Indian. Date/Period: 1300 years old. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming USA. Location: 08.

CAT MUMMY

 CAT MUMMY


The mummy of a cat, symbolic animal of Bastet. Radiography has revealed a lump of small bones and ribs.
The bandages are highly decomposed.
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mummy

Mummy of a grown up female of about 65 years old. It has a linen shroud covering completely the bandaging. According to the x ray, she shows the common sickliness of her age, such as arteriosclerosis, missing dental pieces, arthritis and calcification of cartilages. She lived in the Ptolemaic period, taking over a sarcophagus of the New Kingdom, with which she came into the Museum.
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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BIRD: BIRD MUMMY

 BIRD:  BIRD MUMMY

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 ROMAN PERIOD:  PTOLEMAIC PERIOD

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King Seqnenre-Taa

King Seqnenre-Taa the Second's mummy was originally buried at Dra-Abu'l Naga, and later reburied at Deir el-Bahari in his original coffin.

The body of this king, who died in his forties, was poorly preserved. However, the brain is still in the cranial cavity and the mummy's mouth still has a complete set of healthy teeth.

The king's head is covered with horrific wounds: a dagger thrust behind the ear, after which, perhaps, blows rained down upon him. Mace blows smashed his cheek and nose and a battle-axe cut through the bone above his forehead.
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Mummified head of Seqenenre Tao
The mummy was unwrapped by Gaston Maspero on June 9, 1886. A vivid description by Gaston Maspero provides an account of the injury that was done to the pharaoh at his death:
“ ...it is not known whether he fell upon the field of battle or was the victim of some plot; the appearance of his mummy proves that he died a violent death when about forty years of age. Two or three men, whether assassins or soldiers, must have surrounded and despatched... him before help was available. A blow from an axe must have severed part of his left cheek, exposed the teeth, fractured the jaw, and sent him senseless to the ground; another blow must have seriously injured the skull, and a dagger or javelin has cut open the forehead on the right side, a little above the eye. His body must have remained lying where it fell for some time: when found, decomposition had set in, and the embalming had to be hastily performed as best it might