Clockwise from top left: Excavation of burial shaft, Abusir, Egypt; canopic jars of Wahibre-mery-Neith; cache of embalming vessels, Abusir, Egypt; canopic jars of Wahibre-mery-Neith On the western ...

This shabti dates from 1575BC, from the 19th-22nd dynasty and is approximately 3000 years old. It was found in a tomb in Abydos, which is part of upper Egypt, 300 miles south of Cairo. Europeans ...