Egyptian Mummies. Rediscovering six lives

UNTIL SUNDAY 21/1
Box. Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 1A

Every mummy has a story to tell. Nesperennub was a priest of Thebes, buried with several amulets that protected him and helped him achieve immortality; Takhenemet, lady of your house, He played a musical instrument known as a sistrum, with which she was buried; Ameniryirt, Thebes official, had cancer; next to the mummy of a four-year-old boy from Hawara, we see toys that connect us with a not so distant past, like a rocking horse or a rag ball. He British Museum y Cash Forum Valencia reveals the lives of six people who inhabited the Nile Valley between the 800 a.C. and the 100 d.C. y, through them, we know better the mummification processes, the vision of death or the concept of the afterlife in this ancient civilization. Egyptian Mummies: Rediscovering six lives It is an exciting and emotional journey through Egyptian reality., as well as an approach to the work of scientists who, using computed tomography techniques, they reveal age to us, diseases and nutrition of a civilization that will never cease to surprise us. GLORIA POZUELO

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