buy-skulls: This is an authentic Ancient Egyptian Nile crocodile mummy head! It is the newest additi
buy-skulls: This is an authentic Ancient Egyptian Nile crocodile mummy head! It is the newest addition to the Prehistoria Natural History Centre collection (#PNHC)! This mummy would have been a sacred object, buried in the tomb of important/wealthy individuals or the necropolises and temples associated with the god Sobek. Sobek, often represented as a Nile crocodile or a human with a crocodile head, was a god of Pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess. Dating back to the Greco-Roman period (2nd Century BCE - 2nd Century CE), this animal was preserved using a natural salt called natron, covered with a mixture of beeswax and pitch and then wrapped in linen bandages. Unfortunately the mummy has been unwrapped (and the body lost) in the prior couple thousand years. -- source link