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Mummy with Gilt face
Date: 2008/Aug/21 Thu
Egyptians often re-used tombs.
A lot can happen over 3,000 years. Dynasties and families die out, leaving no one to care for the tombs of the ancient dead. Yet the massive tombs lived on. Sometimes, as in the case of Unis-ankh's tomb upstairs, a burial place might be re-used hundreds of even thousands of years later.
This mummy, from our own collection, dates from a time about 2,000 years after Unis-ankh was buried. It's the one whose face you saw from the courtyard of the tomb above.
Mummy with gilt face
cartonnage and cypress wood
adult female
Ptolemaic-Roman Period
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