Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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  • MS1978-03-01_0001.jpg

    Cambridge professor Dr. John Collins Warren's description of the sarcophagus of the Egyptian mummy sent to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1823 by merchant Mr. Van Lennep, as printed in the Norfolk Beacon. Warren describes the appearance of the deceased's face, as depicted at the top of the sarcophagus. Warren describes the process of the deceased being judged by Egyptian divinities and entering the Egyptian afterlife, as depicted in carvings on the bottom half of the sarcophagus.
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