egypt (object of the week

Until today, the mummies and their coffins are still the most influential artifacts. There is a special mummy in the Egyptian hall of the British Museum in the UK. This is a wooden mummy, from the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Also collected in the British Museum. About 240 BC, the mummies should be considered one of the most influential artifacts in Egypt. The owner of this raft is the high priest of Honifitif, a distinguished Egyptian. An inscription is written on the coffin. (Sorry for the picture of the coffin with the inscription) This artifact is also the first artifact introduced in the A Brief History of the British Museum. Through a mummy, we interpret a lot of information: how the mummy was made, how Hojinitiv’s life, how he died… Through such a mummy, archaeologists and historians have written more together. A detailed history of Egypt. Just the British Museum has a myriad of mummies, so take this statue as an example. There are many other famous mummies. There is a small piece about the Mummies collection in the British Museum: After the sinking of the Titanic, there was a rumor in the UK that a mummy in the British Museum was lost. The mummies finally got on the Titanic and the ship sank. As soon as the rumors came out, the people in London who were hiding in the mummies were afraid. So the British Museum announced that they were willing to accept the private donation of the collection of mummies to the museum, and even symbolically give a reward, so that the British Museum has a lot of mummies, and it has become the world’s largest collection of mummies. The venue even surpassed the Cairo Museum in Egypt. 

Under the CT scan, people can find that he was in the middle ages when he died.

His mummy production method was the most advanced at that time. His internal organs were taken out and carefully wrapped and returned to the body.

 

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