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 ...

Egyptian Animals Were Mummified Same Way as Humans. Animals were viewed not only as pets, but as incarnations of gods—and were buried by the millions to honor ancient Egypt's deities.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...