Essays about: "mumier"
Found 3 essays containing the word mumier.
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1. Scandinavian Mummies : Interpreting the preservative qualities of Danish Bronze Age Mounds
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This paper explores/investigates the circumstances around the unusual level of preservation of organic materials within certain mounds in Jutland, Denmark, as well as the scientific benefits of these findings. These mounds contain coffins made from oak-logs and within them mummies of different degree of preservation have been found. READ MORE
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2. The Life and Times of Butehamun : Tomb Raider for the High Priest of Amun
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This is a biography of the scribe Butehamun. A member of a well-known family who had long lived in the village of Deir el-Medina working on the tombs in the Valley of Kings, Butehamun’s coming of age saw invasion and civil war in Thebes, and the end to the making of new tombs in the Valley, as the New Kingdom came to an end. READ MORE
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3. Finding Butehamun : Scribe of Deir el-Medina
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Butehamun was one of the most famous scribes involved in the building of the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and a member of the most illustrious family of scribes there. Butehamun presided over the closure of the Valley and the workers’ village of Deir elMedina, and the move from building new tombs to the preserving and moving (some would say plundering) of the mummies left behind, marking the transition from the New Kingdom to the Third Intermediate Period, as Egypt splintered into what were essentially two realms. READ MORE
