#new mummy

[theunvanquishedzims]

Okay, I'm making mummies the new monster du jour

We all know the story: daring adventurer and nerdy historian discover hidden treasure in a tomb, and just need to survive the undead and their curses long enough to douse themselves in holy water or whatever to sally off into the sunset with their bags of gold and live happily ever after.

What about the mummy's side?

You're dead. You've been dead for millennia, had your organs removed and rites read, been embalmed and dressed and laid to rest amid vast and well-appointed rooms chock-full of wealth. You strode into the afterlife like the king that you are, and have been reigning ever since. The river flows with milk and honey, eternal virgins attend your every physical desire, and your generosity knows no bounds as you shower endless wealth upon your adoring people.

And then...it stops. The river dries up, sour milk rotting in rivulets across the sticky bedrock. The maidens have vanished one by one, carried off by callous, disrespectful hands. The gold that once towered in piles around your palace disappeared much more quickly, not a single coin or ingot left. And your people turn on you. Not in anger, but in fear, hands clawing you, gaping mouths screaming soundlessly, bodies flattening and fading like living murals.

Anubis snatches you out of the waking nightmare, to something much worse: judgement. What? You have been judged already! Your heart weighed against a feather, the wisdom and love you so carefully curated in life keeping it light enough to guarantee your safe passage into an eternal paradise.

Except not so eternal, it seems. Robbers, he tells you. You cannot believe it. Even the bravest, most brazen, most despicably faithless dogs would not disturb your rest. Raid your tomb, yes, take your finery, yes, strip your body of its ornaments and peel the gold off the sarcophagus, perhaps, but not you. Your body in its wrappings, your organs in their jars, should be left alone. They could dump your empty bones on the floor of the pyramid and walk away with every material possession your people saw fit to entomb you with, but nothing of consequence would be taken from you in the afterlife.

They have not just taken your possessions, says Anubis. They have taken you.

Taken the sarcophagus? Surely they would remove your body to lighten the load--

They have taken you, he says.

Removed me to some lesser grave, to set up some new king in a glorious pyramid he himself could not afford to build? Tacky, and rude, but it has been done before--

They have taken you, he stresses again.

...have I fallen so far out of favor with my people, with Egypt herself, that they would strip me of my title and my rest?

Your god crouches, and looks you gently in the eyes, and says again, They have taken you.

And then he adds: You have ten days to return.

And you awake on a boat, a horrific thing of metal and smoke, surrounded by treasures packed in wooden crates and straw, admired by an endless parade of foreigners who ooh and ahh over your dead body and do not, cannot understand what they are costing you, making you their macabre trophy of the dullest hunt you can imagine.

You will teach them what a real hunt is.

(The rest of the movie is a timed horror-thriller as the hero, trapped in his own desiccated corpse, shambles around London trying to find his heart and return to Egypt, while attacked on all sides by monster hunters and grave robbers who don't understand that they're the bad guys. It is an epic struggle to stay the course and not fall into a vengeful frenzy, to keep his heart pure enough to pass the feather again, to FIND his heart in the first place.)

[thatlittleegyptologist]

*pained smile* stop saying the victorians ate all the mummies because:

no they didn't (that shit took hold on tiktok last year and oh my god why)

the practice had largely died out by that point

most of it happened during the Medieval period

that's largely confused by them consuming 'mummiya' in their medicine which is bitumen, that was part of mummification but not actually the mummy itself

90% were fake using animals or fresh corpses anyway

you guys are not gonna like the practice of corpse medicine throughout various cultures in history because a lot of cultures used corpses in medicine

stop getting your history through tiktok memes *finger guns*

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Woman Mummy.

Date: 1550-332 B.C.

Period: New Kingdom, Late Period

Medium: Organic; Secondary Medium: Resin, linen (?)

[egypt-museum]

Mummy of Amenhotep III

Originally buried in WV22 (Valley of the Kings), Amenhotep III's mummy was moved in ancient times to Tomb KV35, the tomb of Amenhotep II, which was used by Egyptian priests around the Third Intermediate Period as a royal "mummy" cache (storage). Tomb KV35 became a haven to protect the deceased, with priests placing royal mummies from throughout varied reigns together in one space to prevent more damage and theft from ancient tomb robberies.

Despite the rather poorly preserved condition of Amenhotep III's mummy (only his head is pictured here, but his mummified body does exist alongside his head), modern analysis of the king's remains tell us he died around aged 50, which matches Grafton Elliot Smith's estimation from over a century ago; that Amenhotep III's age at death was likely 40–50 years.

Amenhotep III now rests in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization after being moved from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, in April 2021.

Photo: Kenneth Garrett

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[mushroommans-cache]

Got drunk. Drew a Mormon. Bon appétit. 

[notyoujamie]

[paper-daisy]

I've come to the conclusion that every great fictional team needs at least 1 (ONE) unhinged American on it for that certain je ne sais pas that really makes a story pop. It's Rick O'Connell in The Mummy, John Crichton in Farscape, Jack Harkness in Doctor Who/Torchwood, Quincey Morris in Dracula.

Too many Americans and it gets a bit much, but one insane stars-and-stripes man who starts fights, makes bad plans, gets the shit kicked out of him, loves his partners and tells jokes no-one else gets is what you really need to make something special.

[accidental-spice]

@monthly-challenge 2024 | Day #21: Free Day

Gimme just a little bit of hope

With a smile or a glance, gimme one more chance

[gdfalksen]

Happy New Year

[newsatsix1986]

For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s Anna Torv’s latest article in the Australian Women’s Weekly! (September 2023)

She is “quietly confident” we will get a Season Three of The Newsreader! Gosh I hope she’s right!

So good to hear from this brilliantly talented lady! I certainly will be buying the physical copy! 💖

[carnaldesiresiii]

happy new years!!!

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Beautiful shot of the mummy mask of an unnamed lady. Colourful gods parade across the yellow mask, bringing offerings: on this, the left side, we have Seshat, Hathor (wearing an elaborate headdress with a vulture wearing the red crown), Tefnut, and Anubis wearing the double crown.

(This is the same as this.)

When: Roman Egypt

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

[blueiskewl]

A Lost 4,400-Year-Old Tomb Found With Ancient Egyptian Mummy Inside

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official.

The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th centuries B.C. Archaeologists with the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Prague's Charles University said this week they located the tomb near the archaeological sites of Abusir and Saqqara in 2022 by using satellite imagery and studying old maps. Further excavations were conducted at the site this year.

The tomb was partially exposed almost 160 years ago by the French scholar Auguste Mariette, who uncovered an intricately decorated false door with a lintel, or a kind of supporting beam. But not long after the discovery, the tomb disappeared under the desert sand.

The false door and lintel contain information about Ptahshepses' official career, telling the story of his education at the court of Menkaure, an ancient pharaoh who was born in 2532 B.C. and died in 2504 B.C.

According to the information on the false door, Ptahshepses married the daughter of Userkaf, a pharaoh who reigned for a short period in the early 25th century B.C.

This reference itself indicates that Ptahshepses is the first known official of non-royal descent in Egyptian history who was given the privilege of marrying a royal daughter," the Czech Institute of Egyptology said in a Facebook post.

In addition, on the lintel there is a reference that is one of the earliest attestations of the deity Osiris, the god of fertility and the embodiment of the dead.

"This makes the official Ptahshepses even more unique because he can be credited with the idea of introducing the famous god of the Egyptian afterlife into the Egyptian pantheon," the Facebook post said. "Given Ptahshepses' political, historical and religious significance, the tomb is one of the most remarkable discoveries of the recent periods in Egyptian archaeology."

Excavations at the site uncovered an extensive, 137-foot-long and 72-foot-wide superstructure of the tomb. It includes a relatively well-preserved chapel with painted decoration in the entrance and a long access corridor.

This past spring, archaeologists examined the burial chamber, which appeared to have been robbed in antiquity. Nevertheless, it still featured some original funerary artifacts (including pottery), the remains of votive offerings, jars and a mummified fish.

In addition, researchers found a partially opened sarcophagus with the complete mummy of Ptahshepses inside.

Examination of the mummy by Egyptian anthropologists has provided important new data on the evolution of mummification during Egypt's Old Kingdom, which lasted from around 2700 B.C. to 2200 B.C.

One of the researchers, Miroslav Barta, said in a statement: "The tomb of a man who changed the course of Egyptian history has been rediscovered, representing one of the expedition's greatest recent discoveries. The research is still ongoing, and further discoveries will likely be made to shed new light on his family and times."

By ARISTOS GEORGIOU.

[egypt-museum]

Mummy of King Tutankhamun in his Tomb (KV62), Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Tutankhamun's face, when finally revealed, had a "serene and placid countenance", recognisable from his monuments.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1323 BC.

Photo: Kenneth Garrett

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[forestials]

Galadriel with her hair bound up, special thanks to Tolkien for that image in particular

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mummy Board of Iineferty.

Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside; 19th Dynasty, Reign of Ramesses II

Date: ca. 1279–1213 B.C.

Place of origin: Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1), Egyptian Antiquities Service/Maspero excavations, 1885–86

Medium: Wood, gesso, paint, varnish