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The new installation of animal mummies at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Photo by S. Ikram.
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... at the National Museum of Leiden (Raven & Taconis 2005). Complete published catalogues of all animal mummies are also Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed McKnight & Atherton-Woolham 2015). In addition to these specialist displays, animal mummies also are assuming an increasingly prominent part of any exhibition dealing with human mummies (Fig. ...
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... Recently, increasing attention has been paid to them (see Ikram, 2019 for a synopsis, and the various conferences, exhibitions, and publications associated with the topic), yet there are still many questions regarding these artefacts that remain unanswered. The very nature of certain groups of animal mummies continues to be a subject of discussion among Egyptologists (Ikram, 2015a;2019;Kessler, 1986;1989;Kessler & Nur el-Din, 2015;Ray, 1976;2001;Smith & Davies, 2005;Smith et al., 2006;von den Driesch, 1993;von den Driesch et al., 2005), while the different ways in which the animals were acquired, mummified, and deposited, is still under concentrated study. Trying to establish chronologies for types of mummies (for example Bleiberg it is very probable that more frequent use of CT scanning on other animal mummies will provide valuable findings, most of which are out of reach of plain radiography. ...
