#Museum of Egyptian Antiquities

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Egyptian King Tutankhamun's 3300 years old sandals

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Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a passport 3,000 years after his death in order for his mummy to fly to Paris.

Ramesses II (c. 1303 BC – 1213 BC), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom.

His successors and later Egyptians called him the “Great Ancestor.”

Ramesses II was originally buried in a grand tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

He was subsequently moved many times by priests who feared looters. He spent as little as three days in some places, and the priests recorded their actions on wrappings on his body.

Despite his resplendent wealth and power in life, his body was later moved to a royal cache.

With the passage of time, his sarcophagus  was lost to history.

It was re-discovered in a deteriorating condition in 1881. It is now on display in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities.

It was his poor condition that prompted Egyptian authorities to seek help preserving him in the mid-1970s.

They found their experts in France and reluctantly decided to transport the 3,000 year-old mummy to Paris.

In 1975, Maurice Bucaille, a French doctor studying his remains, said that the mummy was threatened by fungus and needed urgent treatment to prevent total decay.

French laws dictated that entry and transportation through the country required a valid passport.

To comply with local laws, the Egyptian government issued a passport to the Pharaoh.

Seemingly, he was the first mummy to receive one. His occupation was listed as "King (deceased)."

The government didn’t want him to get a passport for publicity but believed it would afford them legal protections to ensure his safe return.

As countless artifacts and mummies have been plundered and stolen from Egypt, museums in Europe didn’t always respect Egyptian claims.

In 1976, his remains were issued an Egyptian passport so that he could be transported to Paris for an irradiated treatment to prevent a fungoid growth.

The New York Times reported on 27 September 1976 that the French military aircraft that brought Ramesses' remains from the Cairo Museum was greeted by the Garde Republicaine, France's equivalent of a U.S. Marine honor guard.

“The mummy was greeted by the Secretary of State for Universities, Alice Saunter‐Seite, and an army detachment.

Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for 67 years, received special treatment at Le Bourget Airport.”

It was then taken to the Paris Ethnological Museum for inspection by Professor Pierre-Fernand Ceccaldi, the chief forensic scientist at the Criminal Identification Laboratory of Paris.

During the examination, Cecaldi noted:

“Hair, astonishingly preserved, showed some complementary data, especially about pigmentation.

Ramses II was a ginger-haired ‘cymnotriche leucoderma'” (meaning he was a fair-skinned person with wavy ginger hair).

He is 5 ft '7 inches tall. They found battle wounds, arthritis and tooth abscess.

In ancient Egypt, people with red hair were associated with deity Set, the slayer of Osiris. The name of Ramesses II’s father, Seti I, means “follower of Seth.”

The examination also revealed evidence of previous wounds, fractures and arthritis, which would have left Ramesses with a hunched back in the later years of his life.

In 2007, it was discovered that small tufts of the Pharaoh’s hair were stolen during the 1976 preservation work (published by the BBC).  

A Frenchman named Jean-Michel Diebolt said he had inherited the hair from his late father, a researcher from the team who analysed the mummy.

Deibolt had tried to sell the hair through an online auction for 2000 euros (£1360) but was quickly apprehended by French authorities.

📷 : An artist’s creation of the passport. Image is for representative purposes only. The actual passport is not publicly available.

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Head of a Statue of the God Sobek Shedeti

Egypt, Middle Kingdom, ca. 1859-1802 B.C.

Limestone, 21 7/16 × 20 1/16 × 18 7/8 in.

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Artifacts of Pompeii, in Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

1. Fresco of Bacchus and Mount Vesuvius. 2. Roman amphora with cupids and Dionysian harvesting. 3. Roman padlock, fibula and other tools. 4. Fresco of Serapis between two cobras, from the Temple of Isis.

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Stelae of Pergerger

Pergerger was "chief of the chiselers". He was the chief sculptor or "chiseler" at an artists workshop for the Temple of Ptah in Memphis. He has House of Ptah chiselled on his upper arms and chest to show his strong links to the god Ptah.

Exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. The exhibition is from the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University.

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Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, 1870s By Stephen Thompson.

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Museum of World Treasure • Wichita, KS

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Maa Kheru is a phrase meaning "true of voice" or "justified" or "the acclaim given to him is 'right'". The term is involved in ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs, according to which deceased souls had to be judged morally righteous. The phrase was often used to denote someone who had died and become a god, placed after the name of the individual in question.

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Return looted antiquities. Sign Dr Hawass's petition:

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Egyptian amulet, 1069–664 BCE, glazed composition, Egypt.

5,000 Years of Feminine Power and Prestige Are On Display in ‘Revered and Feared’

Image © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Queen of the Night, about 1750 BCE, painted clay, Iraq.

Dance mask of Taraka, 1994, from the workshop of Sri Kajal Datta (born 1973), papier mâché, clay, fibre and silk, West Bengal, India.

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We talking about these grave robbers today Yes the ones who go all over in Egypt and just dig up people's relatives and put them in glass boxes and send them to people who have nothing to do with them. this is sacrilege if you don't know now you know

stop stealing my relatives

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The pyramidion of the tomb of the “Priest of the Apis” Ptah-mose. The dead couple are praying to the sun gods Khepri, Re-Harakhte, and Atum.

Limestone.

New Kingdom, 1340-1290 BCE

National Museum of Denmark, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities

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Fragment of a Queen's Face, possibly Nefertiti

Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1390–1336 B.C.

Yellow jasper, h. 5 1/8 in.; w. 4 15/16 in.; d. 4 15/16 in.

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