{"id":534587,"date":"2010-04-19T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-8926824280415150121"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:58:38","slug":"mummy-of-rameses-ii%e2%80%99s-high-priest-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534587","title":{"rendered":"Mummy of Rameses II\u2019s high priest revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/scotland\/article7100156.ece\">Times Online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two hundred years after the death of Rameses II, one of the greatest pharaohs of Egypt, his high priest Iufenamun decreed that his mummified body be moved to a secret location to keep his tomb safe from robbers.<\/p>\n<p>Now the priest\u2019s own coffin, snatched from its last resting place, is to be displayed in public for the first time since he died 3,000 years ago. Inside is Iufenamun\u2019s mummy and a cast of his face.<\/p>\n<p>These relics of one the world\u2019s greatest civilizations have been uncovered among the collection of the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, as its \u00a346 million refurbishment continues. For conservators and curators, their encounter with the priest has been not only a professional challenge but almost a supernatural experience as the ancient remains of Iufenamun began to take human form again.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn McLean, head of textile and paper conservation at the National Museum of Scotland, said: \u201cThat was the only moment I felt slightly odd \u2013 when I saw his face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She had spent weeks stabilising the delicate linen tape wrapped round the priest\u2019s body. Ms McLean, who usually deals with costume or clothes, said: \u201cIt feels different, handling a mummy. It\u2019s not just an object, it\u2019s a person. You have to treat him with respect.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-8926824280415150121?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online Two hundred years after the death of Rameses II, one of the greatest pharaohs of Egypt, his high priest Iufenamun decreed that his mummified body be moved to a secret location to keep his tomb safe from robbers. Now the priest\u2019s own coffin, snatched from its last resting place, is to be displayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}