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Painted coffin depicting a colorful winged human figure kneeling beneath a red sun with raised arms, bordered by hieroglyphs and decorative patterns.
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K-12 Virtual Visit

Nesmin and his coffin, 170-30 BCE
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Teaching Notes / Think Like an Archaeologist

A gilded face with blue-outlined eyes on a coffin lid, framed by a blue black headdress with golden details and a red, green, and blue painted collar.
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Serpentipity

Ancient Egyptian Funeral Planning Today
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Mummy's Boy

Mummy's Boy

College Student Voices

Over the last 2,000 years, Nesmin has been a priest, a mummy, and a museum exhibit. RISD Museum intern Jonathan Migliori discusses Nesmin's influence in his life.

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Happenings Artist

A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

A gilded face with blue-outlined eyes on a coffin lid, framed by a blue black headdress with golden details and a red, green, and blue painted collar.

Serpentipity

Ancient Egyptian Funeral Planning Today
College Student Voices

How do you lay an Egyptian mummy to rest in a museum? Our curator considered a number of factors in orienting Nesmin, RISD's Egyptian mummy, in his new case in the freshly renovated gallery, but found a strange coincidence in her final decision.