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 ...

Ancient symbols. In ancient Egypt, various gods were depicted with domestic dog or jackal heads that resemble modern-day Baladi dogs. Perhaps the most well known is Anubis, the god who guided ...

In ancient Egypt, the practice of mummifying animals became widespread in the first millenium B.C. Until the advent of Christianity, visitors to temples could buy animal mummy bundles as offerings ...

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 ...