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Mummies

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  • Limestone jackal-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represents Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian of the stomach
  • An exhumed mummy in St. Stephen's Crypt in Westminster. Chalk lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.
  • Egyptian mummies / by G. Elliot Smith and Warren R. Dawson ; with woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations.
  • Plate showing different types of mummies and the mummification process.
  • Limestone human headed canopic jar
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Catalogue

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    Studies in palaeopathology : Note on a tumour of the pelvis dating from Roman times (250 A.D.), and found in Egypt / by Marc Armand Ruffer and J. Graham Willmore.

    Ruffer, Marc Armand, 1859-1917 | Date: [1914?]
    • Books

    An ancient Egyptian mummified fish / F. Filce Leek.

    Leek, F. Filce (Frank Filce) | Date: 1976
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0008487: Photographs of an unwrapped mummy illustrating the processes of mummification

    | Date: 29 December 1941 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/74/16
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0008479: Photographs of an unwrapped mummy illustrating the processes of mummification

    | Date: 29 December 1941 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/74/8
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Conversations with mummies : new light on the lives of ancient Egyptians / Rosalie David and Rick Archbold.

    David, A. Rosalie (Ann Rosalie) | Date: 2000
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