Bologna Egypt Museum

Bologna had a big archaeology program so they have lots of stuff from Egypt. These jugs are 5500 years old from before the Pharaohs.

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This is a board game in the shape of a snake. We don’t know how it was played.

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Pharaohs’ tombs seem to always have pictures of giant heaps of food. I think they must have spent the afterlife playing food jenga.

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This is the Portal of Userhat. It sounds like it belongs in a video game.

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When it rains on a bird standing on the head of a really thin alien wearing a dress, thumbs down.

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This is a 3400 year old meter stick. Well, cubit-stick anyway. Maybe it was broken trying to scrape gummy toys off of an ancient classroom ceiling.

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I don’t know what is going on here, but I don’t think the cow is having fun.

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This is a painting of a fishing cat.

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This is an ancient Egyptian selfie station. I didn’t know they had XBOX back then.

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This is a mummified ibis.

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The Egyptians mummified pretty much everything.

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Here are some cats.

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And crocodiles.

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And fish.

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And snakes.

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The full grown crocodile is creepy.

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