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An international touring exhibition “Golden Mummies of Egypt”, consisting of 107 objects from Manchester Museum, has recently returned to Manchester and presents a unique opportunity to display and discuss our unique collection of funerary objects dating to the Graeco-Roman Period (ca. 300 BCE – 200 CE)

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... mummification ritual ... was more about transformation of the deceased into a divine being than simply about preservation of the body [www.asor.org]