During a holiday in Egypt, former New York congressman Samuel Sullivan Cox, appointed in the mid-1880s by President Grover Cleveland as U.S. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to ...

Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Figurine of ...

Known popularly as Jacinto, the mummy passed through several institutions: the Museum of Antiquities of the Royal Library (1766), the Royal Cabinet of Natural History (1771, later called the ...

Mummification was practiced throughout most of early Egyptian history. The earliest mummies from prehistoric times probably were accidental. By chance, dry sand and air (since Egypt has almost no ...

Tackling everything from geology to marine life to weather, the Museum of Natural History is a place for ... have explored everything from Egyptian mummies to art. There are also nature talks ...

Sarah Estime This extensive natural history museum occupies half an acre of Grant ... one of the largest collections of mummies in the United States and interactive representations of life on ...