The Egyptian Mummy Gallery Proposes to educate the
visitor about Egyptian Funerary practices with special features to
Mummification and Pyramids.
The Egyptian Mummy preserved in the A.P. State Museum,
Hyderabad is believed to be that of a young girl aged between 16 and 18 years,
daughter of the VIth Pharaoh of Egypt, datable to Ptolemaic period (300-100
B.C). It is one of the six Mummies preserved in the Museums in India. This was
brought by Nazeer Nawaz Jung, the son-in-law of Mis Mahboob Ali Khan, the VIth
Nizam of Hyderabad in 1920s for a throw-away price of 1000 Pounds and gifted to
Mir Osman Ali Khan, The VIIth Nizam of Hyderabad, who in turn donated it to the
Hyderabad Museum when it was opened in 1930.
The panels displayed below in gold color depict the
guardian divinities;
1. Thoth, God of Magic and Wisdom
2. The Goddesses Isis and Nephthys and the Divine Cow
from the Valley of the Kings in the forbidding region behind the western cliffs
of Thebes, where Tutankhamen lies buried.
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