Animal statues, or votive boxes with animal figurines, are often found in religious complexes from ancient Egypt, but it is difficult to analyze their contents without damaging the artifacts and ...

Ancient Egyptian Treasures at the Worcester Art Museum.” It features carved animal figures that had wide-ranging and significant meaning in ancient Egyptian culture, with ties to deities and ...

or even from statues used in religious processions. The study offers more insight into how animal coffins were built and used in ancient Egypt. Animal mummification was widespread, and some ...

When curator of Egyptian archaeology Nir Or ... “The first answer is representation in art, so we included reliefs, tools decorated with animals, and objects shaped like animals.

Archaeologists have described the contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins ... coffins from shrine or temple walls or from statues or boats used during religious processions.

located in the Egyptian governorate of Sohag about 270 miles (435 kilometers) south of Cairo, is one of Egypt’s major though lesser-visited archaeological sites. Alongside the mummified animal ...

Archaeologists have described the contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins. The mummification of animals ... to hand lighter coffins from shrine or temple walls or from statues or boats ...