An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible ...

Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old Intricately Decorated Egyptian Burial Chamber With Two Coffins of Governor’s Only ...

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What most of us won’t be aware of is that the person’s gut was removed from the body and placed in a special container called a canopic jar. It was thought to then be looked over and protected ...

However, the team were able to recover significant artefacts, including the lid of one of the coffins, the broken remains of canopic jars intended to hold the deceased’s internal organs ...

It was dated, I think, 1897. Yes, that's, that's probably right. Okay. It's in fact a canopic jar. Okay. And it's from Egypt. It's made of an indurated limestone. They usually come in sets of four ...

She outlines some of the important stages, including the removal of the brain and organs and the use of canopic jars, and explains why the heart was left inside the body. Joann also looks at the ...

The items also include a set of four canopic jars - containers used by ancient Egyptians during mummification - and funerary head and body coverings known as cartonnage. The jars are the oldest ...

The coffins also contained canopic jars and wooden statues. Unfortunately, he pointed out, the burial chamber had been looted in antiquity, with the mummy found dismembered and the canopic jars ...