Egyptian Mummies: Shroud, Fingers, Bones and Bits

Charles emailed and was curious about the Egyptian Mummy Linen that I just received in the mail the other day and asked if I could post pictures of it, and also, if it was the real deal.

And here it is, the Egyptian Mummy Linen in a rather large plastic bag with some identifying stickers adhered to it. Because of who I deal with, I can assure you that all of my Egyptian Mummy items are in fact very real.

This is one side of the bag with some
colorful scraps mixed in with the other linen.

And here is the other side, where you can
really see the linen a lot better.

And here is a close-up of the linen.
I am always amazed that something this old
can survive this long and still remain intact.

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I thought I would go ahead and post some of the Ancient Egyptian Mummy items that I have acquired over the years through trades (usually arcane research work in exchange for Egyptian Mummy bits). I received most of the Egyptian Mummy bits from the proprietor of the Niagara Falls Museum, the same place where Ramses the King mummy had been hiding out in one of the mummy exhibits.

This arrived sometime last year, a box of
Mummy Bones with a lovely patina bones and teeth.

With the box of bones is a container
that holds Ancient Egyptian bitumen chunks
(I also found bits of bones, teeth and fabric mixed in).
I love how the color looks like what
Ancient Egypt must look like.

Framed Curio Exhibit I made using Egyptian Mummy bones,
bitumen and shroud/linen. The colorful print is
an original from the early 1800s. You can go to my website
right here and find out more
about this particular Framed Curio Exhibit.

Real Ancient Egyptian Mummy finger (long since sold)

About two or three years ago, we bought two authentic Ancient Egyptian Mummies from a man who bought them from a museum many years ago. It seems the museum was about to throw them out and he made an offer and they sold them to him, original cases included. They lingered in his basement for years and years until his wife basically got sick of having them taking up space, and told him to get rid of the mummies. So he called us.

We bought them and brought them back home where they resided in our living room for about a month and a half. One is completely intact (sans its wrapping and missing only a foot) and the other mummy had been disarticulated as a college project. The mummy was all there, but really, it was just a case filled with a skull, bones and an awful lot of bitumen.

Here they are right smack dab in the living room

The hand-carved skull and crossbones on the floor under the table originally came from some castle in Germany. We found it lodged in a garden and made an offer to the owner which she happily accepted. The jars in the case contain real shrunken heads, all of them long since sold.

Here is a close up of the intact mummy.
The item next to his head is his hair mat,
and his major organs had all been removed.

Another view of the mummies in our living room.

Here you can get a better idea of the dis-articulated mummy and all the bones scattered about in the different boxes. The skull was in tucked safely in a box in the case and I was surprised by how amazingly intact it was, and it had most of its teeth. The "dirt" you see on the floor of the case is the bitumen, the resin that was used to coat the body before wrapping it in linen/shroud.
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