Hussein Bassir, Tuesday 15 Aug 2023. The sanctification of animals in ancient Egypt has often been misunderstood, with ancient Greek visitors to Egypt being largely responsible, writes Hussein Bassir ...

D. O'Flynn et al., Neutron tomography of sealed copper alloy animal coffins from ancient Egypt, Nature Scientific Reports, April 20 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30468-4 ...

Archaeologists have described the contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins. The mummification of animals was a widespread practice in ancient Egypt and previous research has ...

Researchers have used neutron tomography, a non-invasive imaging technique, to study six sealed animal coffins from ancient Egypt. The study was published in Scientific Reports. As previously reported ...

Ancient symbols. In ancient Egypt, various gods were depicted with domestic dog or jackal heads that resemble modern-day Baladi dogs. Perhaps the most well known is Anubis, the god who guided ...

An animal coffin with a human-headed part-eel, part-cobra figure wearing a double crown. The figure is associated with Atum, an ancient Egyptian god of pre-existence and post-existence.

Study reveals insights into sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins The mummification of animals was a widespread practice in ancient Egypt. Nina Massey. Thursday 20 April 2023 16:00 BST.

Another commonly mummified animal was the crocodile. Although crocodiles lived in the Nile during ancient times, the completion of the Aswan Dam in 1970 prevented them from moving northwards ...