The Animal Mummy Database

Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods associated with those animals. Some were extravagantly made with decorations and colorful wrappings to be sold at high prices at the temples. During early excavations in Egypt, many animal mummies were dug up and discarded. Very few examples were saved and sent to museums. This has resulted in only a small sampling of these objects being studied. Animal mummies, however, provide important insight into the lives and religion of Ancient Egyptians during a crucial point in their history and deserve to be studied in-depth.

This site was created as a resource for both scholars and the interested public in the hopes that it may become a collaborative project to help gather information on animal mummies. We encourage contributions from museums, researchers and individuals in the hopes of enlarging the corpus.

Searches can be done on any of the descriptive fields as well as advanced searches, which combine two or more fields. There is also a Browse mode which lists mummies by animal type, wrapping type and museum.

Browse by Animal Type Antilope Baboon Baboon ? Bird Bird ? Bull Buzzard Cat Cat ? Cow Crocodile Crocodile ? Crocodile egg Dog Dog ? Eagle Egg Falcon Falcon ? Fish Fish ? Gazelle Goat Goose Hawk Hawk ? Ibis Ibis ? Kestrel Kite Lamb Lizard Nile Perch Nile Turtle Owl Rabbit Ram Raptor Rat Scarab Sheep Shrew Snake Snake ? Sparrowhawk Stork Unknown Vulture	Browse by Wrapping Type applique bitumin bracing bracing ? checkerboard checkerboard woven diamond diamond bracing diamond lozenge diamond lozenge ? herringbone herringbone ? human interval bracing lost lozenge meander meander ? multiple netting netting ? painted plaster plaster shroud shroud ? shroud interval ? spiral spiral ? spiral? square bracing square interval square lozenge square lozenge ? star bracing woven	Browse by Museum Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Agriculture Museum, Cairo Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Bolton Museum and Art Gallery Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery British Museum Brooklyn Museum Cairo Museum Corban Museum Denver Museum of Nature and Science Department of Natural History in Valasske Mezirici, District Museum, Vsetin District Museum, Olomoue Durham Museum Field Museum of Natural History Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Getty Institute Haggin Museum, Stockton, California Houston Kharga Oasis Museum Kunsthistorisches Museum Liverpool Museum London Louvre Louvre, on loan to Warsaw Mallawi Museum, Egypt Manitoba Museum of Fine Arts McClung Museum, University of Tennessee Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University Musee Calvet, Avignon Musee d'art et histoire, Geneva Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire a Bruxelles Museo Archeologico Nazionale / Museo Egizio Museo Arqueologico Nacional Museu Nacional de Arqueologia Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Museum of Mummufication, Luxor, Egypt Naprstak Museum, Prague National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden National Museum of Ireland Natural History Museum, Tring NMSI Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Pelizaeus Museum Petrie Museum Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery Podlipanske Moseum Zesky Brod, District Kolin Private Collection Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose Royal Ontario Museum Siegfried H. Horn Archaeological Museum Smithsonian Spurlock Museum, Illinois Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council Town Museum, Moravska Trebova, District Suitavy Ulster Museum University Museum, University of Pennsylvania University of Aberdeen University of Manchester, Manchester Museum University of Memphis Vienna Yale Peabody Museum