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Past Exhibitions | Gifts of the Nile

Amulets like these were sewn to the mummy bandages by means of three thread holes on the back of each one. The four gods represented in these amulets (about 1075-945 BC, British Museum, London, ea 26230) protected and were each identified with one of the dead person's internal organs: the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines.

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