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Sandro Vannini's Photography - The Canopic Chest

The Canopic Chest of King Tutankhamun, on display at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Image Credit - Sandro Vannini.The Canopic Chest of King Tut was recently featured in a video with Dr Janice Kamrin, as she walks around the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and explains what this beautiful artefact would have been used for (Skip to the video by clicking here). As one of the treasures of the Cairo Museum, it was photographed in stunning detail by the established Egyptology photographer Sandro Vannini, and the images are bought to the Internet by Heritage Key.

Preserving King Tut's Guts: The Canopic Shrine and Jars Introduced

Dr Janice Kamrin talks about the Canopic Shrine and Jars, which are on display in Cairo's Egyptian Museum. Click the image to skip to the video.As we described in our recent handy guide to how to make a mummy, the ancient Egyptians went to great and grizzly lengths to ensure that every last bit of a body was efficiently preserved. The internal organs had to be removed in order to effectively dry out a corpse. They would then be individually wrapped and preserved separately in canopic vessels.

Tutankhamun's Burial Treasures: The Canopic Shrine, Chest and Jars

Dr Janice Kamrin takes us on a trip through the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and shows the spectacular Canopic Shrine - a golden and intricately decorated container flanked by four figures of gods. Inside this stunning shrine was the Canopic containers, which held the vital organs of the mummified body. Made from solid blocks of alabaster, the individual viscera containers were themselves protected inside gold coffinettes.

You can read more about this video in Malcolm's blogpost, and see all our videos on our video page!

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Mummies and Mummification featuring Zahi Hawass: A New Heritage Key Video Clip

Mummification built ancient egypt - dr. zahi hawass videoHeritage Key has posted a new video clip on the process of mummification. Mummification Featuring Zahi Hawass is a video by Nico Piazza, featuring still-photography by Sandro Vannini. In the video Dr. Hawass is examining an unidentified (in the video, at least) mummy found quite serendipitously in a tomb at Saqqara. Once the cover is removed, I can’t quite make out if we are looking at a mask and other protective covering, or if it is an internal coffin, but the paintwork is vivid and very beautiful.

Dr Zahi Hawass explains Ancient Mummy Recipe

Mummification Featuring Zahi Hawass is a video by Nico Piazza, featuring still-photography by Sandro Vannini. In the video Dr Zahi Hawass is examining an Old Kingdom mummy found quite by accident in a tomb at Saqqara. Dr Hawass explains the mummification process and why each stage was carried out, as well as why the heart was left inside the body.

You can read more about the video in Keith's blogpost.

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