Stacked Mummies Reveal 700 Years of Changing Burial Rituals in Ancient Egypt

Stacked Mummies Reveal 700 Years of Changing Burial Rituals in Ancient Egypt

The shift from placing mummies individually to stacking bodies in a Theban tomb shows how burial practices and their symbolic meanings changed over time. In tomb TT 209, an ancient Egyptian burial place in the Theban Necropolis opposite Luxor, four human mummies and a mummified dog were buried one above another. The dog rested directly [...]