Previous Pause Next The golden coffin that once held the mummy of Nedjemankh, a priest in the Ptolemaic Period some 2,000 years ago, is now back at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo. (© Mahmoud Bakkar/AP Images) Reporters gather around the gilded coffin of Nedjemankh, a high-ranking priest of the ram-god Heryshef in the first century B.C.E., now on view at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization after being repatriated to Egypt by U.S. authorities. (© Ma Printer-friendly version
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