Mummies in North Carolina (1)
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Statesville (1)
Iredell Museum 134 Court Street, Statesville, NC 28677 1 Mummy, female. About 25 years old at death. The museum was founded in 1956 as the Arts and Science Museum. "Margaret the Mummy" came to Statesville in 1957 from another museum in Pennsylvania. Her origins were established as the Faiyum with assistance from members of the British Museum. And her time period was assigned to 1000 BC. In 2016 she was featured in The Mummy Treasure of Al Faiyum. She is now on permanent display at the museum. |
Iredell Museum
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North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh, NC 27607
No mummies, but a beautiful collection of Egyptian objects:
"Although comprising only 38 artifacts, the NCMA's ancient Egyptian art collection represents the major periods of ancient Egyptian history, from the Predynastic (Nagada I, circa 4000–3500 B.C.E.) to the Roman (30 B.C.E.–642 C.E.) periods. The Museum’s oldest artifact is a black-topped ceramic jar that was handmade approximately 6,000 years ago. It probably served as food storage in a house or perhaps even a tomb, so that its owner would have food for the afterlife."
2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh, NC 27607
No mummies, but a beautiful collection of Egyptian objects:
"Although comprising only 38 artifacts, the NCMA's ancient Egyptian art collection represents the major periods of ancient Egyptian history, from the Predynastic (Nagada I, circa 4000–3500 B.C.E.) to the Roman (30 B.C.E.–642 C.E.) periods. The Museum’s oldest artifact is a black-topped ceramic jar that was handmade approximately 6,000 years ago. It probably served as food storage in a house or perhaps even a tomb, so that its owner would have food for the afterlife."
