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XVII'th
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XVIII'th
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Including the mummy identified as Queen Hatshepsut.
Gallery III
Including the mummy identified as Queen Tiye.
Gallery
IV
Featuring the controversial KV 55
mummy. Now with a revised reconstruction of ancient events in this perplexing
tomb.
Gallery V
Featuring the mummies of Tutankhamen and his children.
Still in preparation.
XIX'th
Dynasty
Gallery I
Now including the
mummy identified as
Ramesses I.
XX'th
Dynasty
Gallery I
XXI'st
Dynasty
Gallery I
Gallery II
21'st Dynasty Coffins from DB320
Examine the coffins
of 21'st Dynasty Theban Rulers.
Unidentified Mummies
Gallery I
Including the mummy identified as Tutankhamen's mother.
About the Dockets
Inhapi's Tomb
Using this website for research papers
Acknowledgements
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Biographical Data about William Max Miller
Special Exhibits
The Treasures of Yuya and Tuyu
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the funerary equipment of Queen Tiye's parents.
Tomb
Raiders of KV 46
How thorough were the robbers who plundered the tomb of
Yuya and Tuyu? How many times was the tomb robbed, and what were the thieves
after? This study of post interment activity in KV 46 provides some answers.
Special KV 55 Section
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Follow the trail of the missing treasures from mysterious KV 55.
KV
55's Lost Objects: Where Are They Today?
The KV 55 Coffin Basin
and Gold Foil Sheets
KV 55
Gold Foil at the Metropolitan
Mystery of the Missing Mummy Bands
KV
35 Revisited
See rare photographic plates of a great
discovery from Daressy's Fouilles de la Vallee des Rois.
Unknown Man E
Was he really
buried alive?
The
Tomb of Maihirpre
Learn about Victor Loret's
important discovery of this nearly intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Special Section:
Tomb Robbers!
Who were the real tomb raiders?
What beliefs motivated their actions? A new perspective on the ancient practice
of tomb robbing.
Special Section:
Spend a Night
with the Royal Mummies
Read Pierre Loti's eerie account of
his nocturnal visit to the Egyptian Museum's Hall of Mummies.
Special Section:
An
Audience With Amenophis II Journey
once more with Pierre Loti as he explores the shadowy chambers of KV 35 in the
early 1900's.
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Background Image: Wall scene from the tomb of Ramesses II (KV 7.) From Karl
Richard Lepsius, Denkmäler (Berlin: 1849-1859.)
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Special Exhibit
The Tomb of Maihirpre
Gallery II
Opened February 24, 2001
 The Book of the Dead
CG 24095
Found rolled up and laid on Maihirpre's unused middle coffin,
this Book of the Dead measures 117.5 cm. in length and 35 cm. in
height. The vignette shown at left depicts Maihirpre's funeral procession. His
mummy lays on a funeral barque within a shrine surmounted by a per wer roof.
Isis and Nepthys stand at his feet and head while oxen drag the sled on which
the barque rests.
The vignette at right illustrates chapter 30B of The Book of the Dead,
and shows the weighing of Maihirpre's heart before Osiris. The god of the
Underworld is shown in his traditional attire, wearing the White Crown of Upper
Egypt and holding a was-scepter. Thoth, in the form of a baboon, inspects
the scales. This is a somewhat simplified version of the weighing of the heart,
which, in later papyri, usually depicts Anubis inspecting the scales while an
ibis-headed Thoth records the balance. Later versions also usually show the
heart being weighed against a feather or a figure of Maat. At the far right of
the vignette, Maihirpre as a Ba
Bird emerges from his tomb.
Maihirpre, now Justified (or found "True
of Voice") by the scales, greets the Divine Herd in this illustration of
Chapter 148 of The Book of the Dead. The Herd consists of seven cows and
one bull. Before each animal stands a table on which offerings of food and drink
have been left. The cows and bull with their food offerings guarantee continuing sustenance and
virility for Maihirpre in the Underworld.
Papyrus photos are from the Official
Catalogue: The Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1987.)
Osiris Bed
CG 24061
This figure of the god Osiris was made by stretching linen over
a wooden framework and painting an outline of the god with resin
on the flat linen surface. While the resin was still wet, earth
and grain were scattered on it and watered. The bed was
then placed in Maihirpre's tomb where the grain, moistened by
the water, began to sprout. Such Osiris Beds signified
the forces of life and regeneration. Similar beds were
found in the tomb's of Yuya & Tuyu, and Tutankhamen.
See more objects from
Maihirpre's tomb: Mummy,
Coffins & Canopics Jars,
Vases & Bowls Quivers,
Arrows & Dog Collars
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