Despite the disputed attribution, the mummy was included in the 2021 Pharaohs' Golden Parade. The body also had been damaged in antiquity and was missing its right hand. The mummy's hair had been thinning and plaits of false hair had been woven in with its own to cover this up. If this is Ahmose-Nefertari, then she was determined to have died in her 70s. When the mummy was found it emitted such a bad odor that it was reburied on museum grounds in Cairo until the offensive smell abated. Her presumed body, with no identification marks, was discovered in the 19th century and unwrapped in 1885 by Emile Brugsch but this identification has been challenged. The mummies that have been lost or destroyed since initial discovery may never be properly identified.Īhmose-Nefertari is assumed to have been retrieved from her tomb at the end of the New Kingdom and moved to the royal cache in DB320. Over time through the advance in technology, new information comes to light that discredits old findings and beliefs. The following entries are previously identified mummies that are now in dispute. His mummy is still there, and it indicates that he died around the age of ten. He died as a child and was buried in his father's tomb, KV35, where there were found his canopic jars and shabtis. He is mentioned, along with his brother Nedjem, on a statue of Minmose, overseer of the works in Karnak. Webensenu was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 18th Dynasty. Tiye was found to be extensively damaged by past tomb robbers. Egyptologists Auguste Mariette, and Heinrich Brugsch noted that the mummy was in very poor shape. In 1857, the mummy of Kamose was discovered seemingly deliberately hidden in a pile of debris. The mummy of Amenhotep I features an exquisite face mask which has caused his body not to be unwrapped by modern Egyptologists. His mummy was moved sometime in the 20th or 21st Dynasty for safety, probably more than once. The mummy of Amenemopet was buried in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cache where it was discovered in 1857. The mummy was found with various jewelry and two funerary masks which are now all displayed at the Cairo Museum. While the tomb was discovered in 1940, his mummy was not found until the end of World War II. His canopic jars and possible mummy were found there. He died young and was buried in his father's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV43, together with his father and a sister called Tentamun. He is depicted in the Theban tomb TT64, which is the tomb of the royal tutors Heqareshu and his son Heqaerneheh. Īmenemhat was a prince of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt the son of Pharaoh Thutmose IV. Her mummy was found in the pit MMA 1019 in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. Her name is known from her coffin, which is now in the Hermitage Museum. Since her titles were "King's Daughter" and "King's Sister", it is likely that she was a daughter of pharaoh Seqenenre Tao and a sister of pharaoh Ahmose I. Īhmose-Tumerisy was an ancient Egyptian princess of the late 17th Dynasty. Sitkamose was about thirty years old when she died, Grafton Eliot Smith described her as a strong-built, almost masculine woman. Her mummy was unwrapped by Gaston Maspero on Jwhere it was found to be damaged by tomb robbers. Sitkamose's mummy was discovered in 1881 in the Deir el-Bahari cache. At some point she was moved to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo where she remains to this day. Īhmose-Sitamun was found entombed in DB320. The body was sprinkled with aromatic powdered wood and wrapped in resin soaked linen. Her skin was still present, and no evidence of salt was found. The mummy was found in the outer coffin of Lady Rai, the nurse of Inhapy's niece Queen Ahmose-Nefertari. Her mummy was found carefully rewrapped, which was determined to have occurred during the reign of Pinedjem I. An examination of her mummy shows that she suffered a head wound prior to her death which was the possible result of falling backwards. Like other mummies of the era, she was found to be heavily damaged by tomb robbers. Like Ahmose-Henutemipet, she was found to be an old woman when she died as her teeth are worn.Īhmose-Meritamon was found entombed in DB320. Her remains were found badly damaged, likely by tomb robbers.Īhmose-Henuttamehu was found in 1881 entombed in DB320. Īhmose-Henutemipet was found in 1881 entombed in DB320. The body bore signs of having been plundered by ancient grave-robbers, his head having been broken off from his body and his nose smashed. His name was later found written in hieroglyphs when the mummy was unwrapped. Īhmose I's mummy was discovered in 1881 within the Deir el-Bahri Cache. Her mummy was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli during his excavations from 1903-1905. Princess Ahmose was buried in tomb QV47 in the Valley of the Queens. The mummy of Ahhotep II was destroyed in 1859. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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