List of Egyptian mummies

The following is a list of notable mummies that have been found in Egypt dating to the Pharoh dynasties. Some mummies have been found to be remarkably intact while others have been damaged from tomb robbers, and environmental conditions.

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Name Other names Year of Death Dynasty Sex Year discovered Image Description
1770 (mummy) Female
Ahmose (princess) Unknown 17th Female 1903-1905
Ahmose I Amasis 1525 BC 18th Male 1881
Ahmose-Henutemipet Unknown 17th/18th Female 1881
Ahmose-Henuttamehu Unknown 17th/18th Female 1881
Ahmose-Meritamon Meryetamun Unknown 17th Female Unknown
Ahmose-Meritamun Ahmose-Meritamon Unknown 18th Female 1930
Ahmose Inhapy Ahmose-Inhapi Unknown 17th/18th Female 1881
Ahmose Sapair Sipair Unknown 17th Male 1881
Ahmose-Sitamun Sitamun Unknown 18th Female Unknown
Ahmose-Sitkamose Sitkamose Unknown 17th/18th Female 1881
Ahmose-Tumerisy Unknown 17th Female Unknown Ahmose-Tumerisy was an ancient Egyptian princess of the late 17th Dynasty. Since her titles were "King's Daughter" and "King's Sister", it is likely that she was a daughter of pharaoh Seqenenre Tao and a sister of pharaoh Ahmose I. Her name is known from her coffin, which is now in the Hermitage Museum. Her mummy was found in the pit MMA 1019 in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.[1]
Akhenaten Amenhotep IV 1336 or 1334 BC 18th Male 1907
Amenemhat Son of Thutmose IV Unknown 18th Male Unknown Amenemhat was a prince of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt; the son of Pharaoh Thutmose IV.[2] He is depicted in the Theban tomb TT64, which is the tomb of the royal tutors Heqareshu and his son Heqaerneheh.[3] He died young and was buried in his father's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV43, together with his father and a sister called Tentamun.[4] His canopic jars and possible mummy were found there.[5]
Amenemope Usermaatre Amenemope 992 or 984 BC 21st Male 1940
Amenemopet Unknown 18th Female 1857
Amenhotep I Amenophis I 1506 or 1504 BC 18th Male Unknown
Amenhotep II 1401 or 1397 BC 18th Male 1898
Amenhotep III Amāna-Ḥātpa 1353 or 1351 BC 18th Male 1898 [6]
Asru 700 BC Female 1825 [7]
Djedmaatesankh Unknown Female Unknown
Djedptahiufankh 943 to 728 BC 22nd Male 19th Century
Duathathor-Henuttawy Henuttawy Unknown 20th Female Unknown
Gebelein predynastic mummies 3400 BC Predynastic Both 1895 - 1896
Hatshepsut 1458 BC 18th Female
Henhenet Unknown 11th Female Unknown
Henut Taui Unknown 21st Female Unknown
Henuttawy C Henettawy Unknown 21st Female 1923-1924
Hornedjitef c.220 BC Ptolemaic Male Unknown
Isetemkheb D Unknown 21st Female Unknown
Iufaa 500 to 525 BC 26th Male 1996
Maatkare Mutemhat Unknown 21st Male Unknown
Maiherpri Unknown 18th Male 1901
Masaharta Masaherta 1045 BC 21st Male Unknown
Mayet Miiut or Miit 2010 BC 11th Female 1921
Meresamun c.800 BC 23rd Female 1920
Merneptah Merenptah 1203 BC 19th Male 1898
Mutnedjmet 1319 or 1332 BC 18th Female Unknown
Nauny Nany Unknown 21st Female Unknown
Nebetia Unknown 18th Female 1857
Nehmes Bastet Unknown 22nd Female 2012
Nesitanebetashru Unknown 21st Female Unknown
Neskhons Nsikhonsou 21st Female 1881
Nesperennub 800 BC 23rd Male? [8][9]
Nefrina c.275 BC Ptolemaic Female 1930
Nesyamun The Leeds Mummy c.1100 BC Male 1823
Nodjmet 1064 BC 20th/21st Female Unknown
Ramesses I Ramses 1290 BC 19th Male 1817 [10][11]
Ramesses II Ramesses the Great 1213 BC 19th Male 1881
Seti I Sethos I 1279 BC 19th Male 1881 [12][13]
Thutmose II 1479 BC 18th Male 1881 [14][15]
Tutankhamun King Tut 1323 BC 18th Male 1922
Tjuyu 1375 BC 18th Female 1905
Yuya Iouiya 1374 BC 18th Male 1905

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p. 128
  2. ↑ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.137
  3. ↑ Dodson & Hilton, p.134
  4. ↑ Dodson & Hilton, p.135
  5. ↑ Dodson & Hilton, p.137
  6. ↑ Beckerath, Jürgen von, Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, (1997) p.190
  7. ↑ "Reconstructed head of Asru". Ancient-egypt.co.uk. 31 August 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  8. ↑ British Museum: Mummy of Nesperennub
  9. ↑ Taylor, John H. (2011). Mummy:Secrets of the Tomb (New American 2011 ed.). Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-0-917046-98-8.
  10. ↑ Jürgen von Beckerath, Chronologie des Äegyptischen Pharaonischen (Mainz: Phillip von Zabern, 1997), p.190
  11. ↑ Rice, Michael (1999). Who's Who in Ancient Egypt. Routledge.
  12. ↑ Michael Rice (1999). Who's Who in Ancient Egypt. Routledge.
  13. ↑ J. von Beckerath (1997). Chronologie des Äegyptischen Pharaonischen (in German). Phillip von Zabern. p. 190.
  14. ↑ Grimal, Nicolas. A History of Ancient Egypt. p.204. Librairie Arthéme Fayard, 1988
  15. ↑ Shaw, Ian; and Nicholson, Paul. The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. p. 289. The British Museum Press, 1995
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