In central Egypt, archaeologists uncovered one of these elaborate scenes: a 3,500-year-old New Kingdom cemetery filled with mummies, amulets, statues, canopic jars, and a 43-foot-long papyrus scroll ...

Using advanced scanning technology, the archaeologists were able to reconstruct damaged hieroglyphs on a canopic chest. It turned out that the tomb belonged to none other than Princess Hatshepsut ...

Nevertheless, the Penn Museum archaeologists recovered the remains of king Senebkay amidst debris of his fragmentary coffin, funerary mask, and canopic chest.

The king's internal organs were placed in a Canopic Chest, which was enclosed in an elaborate wooden gilded chest, each side of which was protected by a statue of a goddess. This goddess is Selket ...

The show is full of visual stunners. The mummy case of Taosiris and the canopic chest of Dibastet exemplify the remarkable range of color and elegant imagery that gave birth to 20th-century ...

But the pharaoh’s funerary mask, canopic chest, and debris from the coffin remained in his tomb, and early research on the body suggests that Senebkay stood 5’10” (1.75m) tall and died in ...

'The Canopic Jar of My Sins: A Medieval Morality Play for Latter Day Postmodernists' WHEN: through Oct. 28 WHERE: Fortress of Lushington, 2215 Burgundy St., New Orleans TICKETS: $20 ...

In central Egypt, archaeologists uncovered one of these elaborate scenes: a 3,500-year-old New Kingdom cemetery filled with mummies, amulets, statues, canopic jars, and a 43-foot-long papyrus ...

The Canopic Chest for Tutankhamun's internal organs was made of a large block of delicately veined and translucent calcite, with four compartments, each sealed by a stopper carved to represent the ...