Tag Archive: "human remains"
2020-03-13
Get to know the woman behind the wrappings in the newly opened Ancient Egypt exhibition at Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.
The year was 1922 in Western Thebes, along the west bank of the Nile River. Egyptologist H.E. Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was excavating mortuary temples and tombs in the Deir el-Bahari site when he found her. Hidden in a chamber cut in the floor of a brick chapel lay the main star […]