Sarcophagus and mummy of Sha-amun-en-su. Third Intermediate Period, XXIII Dynasty, c. 750 BC.
Oh man - so this wasn’t just a “natural” history museum. That is really tragic that so many things from the old and foreign cultures are now gone. I’m always amazed to look at some of the really old stuff and see how good it was, and think of what it must have taken to design and make something so beautiful way back when.
The museum in Taiwan is REALLY mind blowing. The detail and beauty of stuff from 900 BC. and earlier.