pefaakhons

Updated: May 23, 2025

The next twelve cases are filled with human mummies and their coffins. In the first case is a mummy of Pefaakhons, an auditor of the royal palace during the twenty-sixth dynasty. This mummy is about two thousand two hundred years old. Upon it the visitor may notice the representation of Egyptian deities Osiris, the Hawk of Ra, Isis, the embalmer Anubis, and the bull Apis.

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