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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.

Plate showing different types of mummies and the mummification process.

Limestone human headed canopic jar

Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes. Collotype.

The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 1779.

The uncovered head of a mummy: showing the head with the outer covering removed and the head with a pledget of tow in the mouth. Lithograph by J. Basire after George Scharf, 1852.

The British Museum: the Egyptian Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.

Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400

Egyptian mummies / by G. Elliot Smith and Warren R. Dawson ; with woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations.

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.

An ancient Egyptian mummified fish / F. Filce Leek.

M0008487: Photographs of an unwrapped mummy illustrating the processes of mummification

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

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

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Mummies

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Images referencing Mummies

Works from the collections

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.

An ancient Egyptian mummified fish / F. Filce Leek.

M0008487: Photographs of an unwrapped mummy illustrating the processes of mummification

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

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

Mummies

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mummies

Works from the collections

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.

An ancient Egyptian mummified fish / F. Filce Leek.

M0008487: Photographs of an unwrapped mummy illustrating the processes of mummification

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

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

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