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Takabuti’s Arrival in Belfast and the First Scientific Studies
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Takabuti was the first Egyptian mummy to come to Ireland. Her arrival in Belfast in 1834 caused great excitement, and her unwrapping the following year was the equivalent of a modern-day media spectacle.
The mummy and her finely painted anthropomorphic coffin were purchased at a mummy market in Thebes (modern Luxor) by Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House in Holywood, Co. Down. Many Egyptian tombs were robbed over the years for the benefit of Europeans (...
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Title: Takabuti’s Arrival in Belfast and the First Scientific Studies
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Takabuti was the first Egyptian mummy to come to Ireland.
Her arrival in Belfast in 1834 caused great excitement, and her unwrapping the following year was the equivalent of a modern-day media spectacle.
The mummy and her finely painted anthropomorphic coffin were purchased at a mummy market in Thebes (modern Luxor) by Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House in Holywood, Co.
Down.
Many Egyptian tombs were robbed over the years for the benefit of Europeans (.
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