This wooden coffin is believed to be 2,500 years old and is decorated with 6 different gods including an incarnation of the king of the gods Amun-Ra, depicted here as part ram, part hawk and with the sun on his head.
This coffin shows Osiris, god of the dead depicted in the form of large hawks. The person inside is probably a woman from the 22nd dynasty according to Abdul Rahman El-Aidy.
The mummy on the left of this picture was believed to be the more significant of the two. The soot that can be seen is possibly left over from the mummifying process while the face has been deliberately painted black as a symbol of fertility and birth. The coffin on the right has decoration along its middle, a depiction of four gods that served to protect the entrails, removed during the mummification process.
