A woman views the Mummy of Meresamun in the
Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of artifacts from ancient Egypt and
Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford, England. The new gallery is
displaying for the first time in decades some of the finest Egyptian and
Nubian artifacts in the UK. The Egyptian collection opens to the public
from November 26, 2011. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Members of the public view a mummy of a young woman
from during the Roman occupation of Egypt in the Ashmolean Museum's new
exhibition of artifacts from ancient Egypt and Nubia on November 23,
2011 in Oxford, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Sue Goddard views a statue of King Taharqa in the
Shrine of Taharqa in the Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of artifacts
from ancient Egypt and Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford, England.
(Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Members of the public admire the Ashmolean Museum's
new exhibition of artifacts from ancient Egypt and Nubia on November
23, 2011 in Oxford, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Members of the public view a mummified child dating
from 80AD in the Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of artifacts from
ancient Egypt and Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford, England.
(Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
A museum assistant holds a faience mummiform
figurine know as a “shabti” in the Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of
artifacts from ancient Egypt and Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford,
England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
A woman views the Shrine of Taharqa in the
Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of artifacts from ancient Egypt and
Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford, England. (Photo by Oli
Scarff/Getty Images)
Artist Sue Goddard views the Shrine of Taharqa in
the Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of artifacts from ancient Egypt
and Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford, England. (Photo by Oli
Scarff/Getty Images)
Laura Berry views mummiform figurines on display in
the Ashmolean Museum's new exhibition of artifacts from ancient Egypt
and Nubia on November 23, 2011 in Oxford, England. (Photo by Oli
Scarff/Getty Images)