Hussein Bassir, Tuesday 15 Aug 2023. The sanctification of animals in ancient Egypt has often been misunderstood, with ancient Greek visitors to Egypt being largely responsible, writes Hussein Bassir ...

D. O'Flynn et al., Neutron tomography of sealed copper alloy animal coffins from ancient Egypt, Nature Scientific Reports, April 20 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30468-4 ...

An animal coffin with a human-headed part-eel, part-cobra figure wearing a double crown. The figure is associated with Atum, an ancient Egyptian god of pre-existence and post-existence.

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and Egyptian culture through hieroglyphs, gods, and amulets ...

Study reveals insights into sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins The mummification of animals was a widespread practice in ancient Egypt. Nina Massey. Thursday 20 April 2023 16:00 BST.

Researchers have used neutron tomography, a non-invasive imaging technique, to study six sealed animal coffins from ancient Egypt. The study was published in Scientific Reports. As previously reported ...

Get.factual (Video) The Secret of the Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. Posted: December 12, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Egyptians believed in many different Gods, all of whom were ...

Ancient Egyptian animal mummies are often wrapped in linen bandages and so the contents are not usually visible to the naked eye. But this crocodile mummy had been unwrapped at some point in ...

During a turbulent period in ancient Egypt, common people turned to animal mummies to petition the gods, inspiring the rise of a massive religious industry A shrew mummy (top), found at an animal ...

Another commonly mummified animal was the crocodile. Although crocodiles lived in the Nile during ancient times, the completion of the Aswan Dam in 1970 prevented them from moving northwards ...