Animal Mummies

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Priests – photo from national geographic

(by National Geographic photographer Richard Barnes)

Cats, from the Cairo museum

The pattern on the horse’s chest is called the greek key design – it was a favorite pattern in ancient art and still today. This photo is from the British Museum’s website.

A mummified crocodile from UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum. The scientists found a hook inside of him when they CT scanned it!

Look at those Egyptian patterns. This is from a statue of a falcon at UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum.

Canopic boxes, from UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum. Check out the patterns on the falcons – all of those triangles – as well as the striped border