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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade ordet Mumier.
1. Mumier som monster : Mumiers framställning i brittisk populärlitteratur under 1800-talet
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to study the representation of monstrous mummies in British literary fiction from the 1800s. The material used is The mummy (1827), Lot No. 249 (1892), and Pharos the egyptian (1899). A narrative analysis is the method used in the essay to explore the chosen material. LÄS MER
2. Scandinavian Mummies : Interpreting the preservative qualities of Danish Bronze Age Mounds
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : This paper explores/investigates the circumstances around the unusual level of preservation of organic materials within certain mounds in Jutland, Denmark, as well as the scientific benefits of these findings. These mounds contain coffins made from oak-logs and within them mummies of different degree of preservation have been found. LÄS MER
3. The Life and Times of Butehamun : Tomb Raider for the High Priest of Amun
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : This is a biography of the scribe Butehamun. A member of a well-known family who had long lived in the village of Deir el-Medina working on the tombs in the Valley of Kings, Butehamun’s coming of age saw invasion and civil war in Thebes, and the end to the making of new tombs in the Valley, as the New Kingdom came to an end. LÄS MER
4. Makt, nätverk och mumier : En studie av Victoriamuseets egyptiska samlings skapande, den svenska egyptologin och svenskt samlande under 1800-talet
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kulturSammanfattning : This paper focuses on Swedish practices regarding the collecting and exhibiting of Egyptian cultural items at the Victoria Museum in Uppsala during the period between 1882 and 1904. It works to establish who the individuals responsible for this collection were, what their social standing were and how they were connected to each other and other foreign collecting practitioners using the actornetwork-theory and comparative studies. LÄS MER
5. Finding Butehamun : Scribe of Deir el-Medina
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : Butehamun was one of the most famous scribes involved in the building of the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and a member of the most illustrious family of scribes there. Butehamun presided over the closure of the Valley and the workers’ village of Deir elMedina, and the move from building new tombs to the preserving and moving (some would say plundering) of the mummies left behind, marking the transition from the New Kingdom to the Third Intermediate Period, as Egypt splintered into what were essentially two realms. LÄS MER
