Mummification Museum in Luxor

?Where is this museum located

The Mummification Museum in Luxor is located on the Nile Corniche, north of the Luxor Temple, and this museum aims to highlight the techniques of the ancient Pharaonic art of mummification that the ancient Egyptians applied to many creatures, not only to humans. that were used in that process

Sections and components of the museum

The museum occupies an area of about 2035 square meters and contains the following sections

The exhibition hall: which in turn includes two sections

The first: It is the ramp where there are ten hanging panels detailing the rituals of the funeral procession and the procedures that follow from death to burial, from a real-time papyrus that is displayed in the British Museum.

The second: It begins at the end of the ramp, and more than sixty pieces are displayed in 19 glass windows.

Lecture hall

video room

cafeteria

Museum exhibits

Mummification Museum exhibits revolve around 11 main themes

Gods of ancient Egypt

embalming materials

organic matter

embalming fluids

The methods used in the embalming process

Canopic utensils for preserving the internal organs of the deceased, and they took the form of the four sons of Horus, namely "Emst", "Hapi", "Dawamotiv" and "Qebeh Snouf

Ushabti

amulets

The Ark of Badi Amun

The mummy of Masharti (the son of King Ba Najm I, who was a high priest of Amun and a commander of the army) is the only human mummy in the museum.

stuffed animals