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Crocodile Mummy Mask
Mummy mask for a crocodile with traces of mummy wrapping inside. Stucco, linen, and glass. From modern-day Egypt. Roman period, 1st and 2nd centuries CE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).
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Wax Encaustic Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a young woman from Hawara cemetery, Egypt, 2nd century CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL). This wax encaustic portrait on a wood panel...
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Anubis Tending to a Mummy
A relief depicting the god Anubis attending to the mummy of a worker, identified as either Amennakht or Nebenmaat. The relief, and the tomb it is in, date to the reign of Ramesses II (1279-1213 BCE). From the necropolis at Deir el-Medina...
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Tattoos on the Mummy of Amunet
An illustration indicating the tattoos present on the Egyptian Mummy of Amunet, a priestess of the goddess Hathor in the 11th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. (Daniel Fouquet, ‘Le Tatouage Medicale en Egypte dans l’Antiquite et a l’Epoque Actuelle’...
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Ancient Andean Mummy Bundle
A Nazca mummy bundle from Chauchilla, Peru. Then Nazca civilization flourished between 200 BCE and 600 CE. Mummification was a common practice in many ancient Andean cultures.
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Original Saltman Mummy
The original Saltman, the first of six well-preserved bodies found in a salt mine near Zanjan, Iran. This man lived c. 1750 years ago, and his mummy was discovered by miners in 1994.
National Museum of Iran, Tehran.
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Egyptian Cartonnage Mummy Face
A painted linen cartonnage face from an Egyptian female mummy. Third Intermediate Period of Egypt, 21st-22nd Dynasty, 1070-736 BCE.
Egyptian Museum, Turin.
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Female Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of the head and shoulders of a dark-haired young woman from Hawara cemetery, Egypt, early 2nd century CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL...
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Male Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a young man from the Hawara cemetery, Egypt, 1st to 2nd centuries CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL). The Petrie Museum has the largest...
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Cartonnage Mummy Case & Skeleton of a Child with a Rare Bone Disease
Cartonnage mummy case & skeleton of a child with a rare bone disease called osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease). His skull and part of his skeleton are on the left side of the cartonnage. The remains of this infant constitute the...