Mummies at NC museum tell tale of people's hopes and dreams from 2,000 years ago
Mummies at NC museum tell tale of people's hopes and dreams from 2,000 years ago Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Mar. 4—RALEIGH — More than 2,000 years ago, the Egyptians laid an upper-class woman named Tasheriankh inside her wooden coffin, launching her into the afterlife loaded with ancient bling. A golden mask fits snugly over her face, and a papier-mâché cartonnage covers her chest like a bib — all of it decorated with Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the underworld. And under this funeral costume, Tasheriankh's slim form still persists, wrapped i...