New exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum shows how tomb thieves stole materials from older coffins to construct new ones Eternal rest could final a surprisingly short time in ancient Egypt.
Surprising research,revealed for the first time in an exhibition opening next week at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, exposes that many were buried in new and decorated coffins, or patched together from pieces of older coffins; some made only a few generations earlier.
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Source: theguardian.com