Tag: Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Egyptian Hawk Mummy Mystery | Baby History Shorts

  

  In 2016, as part of Maidstone Museum’s Ancient Lives project, their mummified collections, comprised mostly of animals, were CT scanned. Shockingly, EA 493 Mummified Hawk (Ptolemaic Period, 300bce) didn’t contain a hawk, it contained a human.  Inside of a small cartonnage, painted with a gilt hawk face and wings, but human feet in sandals, and…

  Aradia Wyndham

  August 24, 2023

  Babies, Pregnancy, Video

  Ancient Egypt, anencephaly, Egypt, Falcon, fetal, Hawk, history, Horus, miscarriage, mummies, mummy, pregnancy loss, Ptolomy, Saqqara

• King Tut’s Daughters

  

  This article will deal with issues of pregnancy loss and stillbirth, with photos of mummified human remains. King Tut, short for Tutankhamun, is arguably one of the most recognized ancient Egyptian pharaohs despite his short life and shorter rule around 3300 years ago yet there is a lot of misconceptions about him in popular culture.…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 8, 2023

  Birth, Pregnancy

  Ancient Egypt, art history, fetal mummies, miscarriage, stillbirth

• Syrian Baby Carriers in Ancient Egypt

  

  An Egyptologist from 1904 considers the infant carriers found on a 3,500 year old tomb wall.

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 24, 2019

  Babies, Video

  18 dynasty, Ancient Egypt, anthropology, art history, asiatics, babywearing, back carry, Egyptian, Egyptology, featured, linen bag, Max W Muller, Middle Kingdom, mothers, rosetta stone, slavery, syria, syrian, Theban Necropolis, Thebes, tribute