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The mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti I (Sety, Sethi, or Sethos) was transported to Dier- el-Bahri in around 968 BCE. The tomb itself was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in the 19th century CE. Belzoni found this rope hanging from a small...

This wooden shabti (ushabti) of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II was remodeled and reused as an Osiris figurine in the 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 BCE. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, 1297-1213 BCE. From Egypt, precise provenance...

Each of the jars contains a shallow cavity too small to accommodate a package of wrapped viscera. The inscriptions associate Duamutef and Qebhsennuef with a falcon and a jackal respectively. 25th Dynasty, c. 700 BCE. From Egypt, precise provenance...

Mummy wrapping of a man named Djedher, son of Sekhmetnefret, inscribed in hieratic with funerary texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. From Saqqara, Egypt, Late Period of ancient Egypt, 4th century BCE or later. The British Museum, London...

The dead woman, Asetnefret, seated at the right, sniffs a lotus flower while receiving a libation from her daughter, who holds the hands of her son Penpara. Clothes of this type were placed over the breast of the mummy or coffin. New Kingdom...

Elaborately mummified left foot of a child. The wrappings imitate protruding toes from a sandal. From Qurna, Roman Egypt, after 30 BCE. The British Museum, London.

An artist's impression of a Viking fleet at sea. (From the PC game Total War: Thrones of Britannia by The Creative Assembly)

An artist's impression of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, r. 871 - 899 CE. (From the PC game Total War: Thrones of Britannia by The Creative Assembly)

An artist's impression of what the Viking raids in Britain may have looked like from the late-8th to 11th century CE. (From the PC game Total War: Thrones of Britannia by The Creative Assembly)

This is the upper part of the mummy of an unknown young man; probably, his age was below 21 years. The rest of the mummy is intact but is not shown here. The mummy was discovered in the 1820s. The elaborate preparation of this mummy is highly...