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A picture tour of New Walk Museum & Art Gallery - a Museum in the town of Leicester, in the county of Leicestershire
mummy detail Leicester Museum
mummy detail Leicester Museum - by Mark Corby ©

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mummy detail Leicester Museum

Painted on a mummies tomb. The dogheaded god shown here is Anubis. He appears to be putting the heart liver etc of the dead person into seperate canopic jars, which was standard practice for the Ancient Egyptians. If anyone knows better please tell me.
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Photographer: © Mark Corby (Gallery)(20th July 2008)

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