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The mummies
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The mummy of Ramses II in danger
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This head of a mummy is one of the most important and dramatic documents of the Second Middle Period. It belongs to prince Seqenenra, a great leader who began the war for the teban liberation against the Hyksos. Very probably the hero died in the actual battle against the king Hyksos Apophis: his mummy has the marks from the horrible wounds that killed him. His body, writhed in pain, couldn’t be put in order by the embalmers and he was buried in western Tebe with still the signs of death on it. As he was considered a national hero, his mummy was one of the first ones hidden by the teban priests in the cachette in Deir el-Bahari when the royal tombs began to be systematically ravaged. |
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The mummy of Menra I |
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In the tomb KV55 the queen Tiye’s objects were found and the sarcophagus destined to Kiya, one of Akhenaton’s wives; the mummy found, initially believed to be Tiye’s, is today attributed (with many doubts) to Akhenaton. |
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Petamenofi’s mummy, who died at four years old. The body is carefully wrapped in bandages and a diadem is on the head. 125 AC, Egypt was by then a roman province, governed by Emperor Adriano. |
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Radiography of Merit’s mummy Merit is the architecture Ka’s wife, whose tomb was discovered intact by Ernesto Schiapparelli in Deir el Medina in 1906. The woman wore earrings and a necklace as various Egyptians, made with tags, pendants and little pearls of colored stone (diaspri, cornioli, turquoise,lapislazuli). |
