To: SunkenCiv
It looks like I spoke too soon. A British website called Digital Egypt asserts that anthropoid coffins were introduced during the Middle Kingdom. These two were found in a tomb belonging to two men. Apparently with each of them, the mummy was placed in a newfangled anthropoid coffin, and that went into one of the more typical rectangular boxes.
![](http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/rifeh/mk/coffin.jpg)
![](http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/rifeh/mk/anthropoid.jpg)
Source: http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/rifeh/mk/tombbrother.html
27 posted on
02/13/2007 6:46:04 PM PST by
Berosus
("There is no beauty like Jerusalem, no wealth like Rome, no depravity like Arabia."--the Talmud)
To: Berosus
I'd like to see the Menkaure sarcophagus that went down on the Beatrice. :') Also, weren't there anthropoid cases of a sort used in some of the surviving 4th dyn interments under the Giza plateau?
28 posted on
02/13/2007 10:11:20 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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